Quotes about Discernment

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

It goes back to the passage from Proverbs. We don't know what to do, where to go, or how. So I thought we'd try and take this time to find out what we want, and what God wants, and pray for each other.

Met de uiterste voorzichtigheid, maandenlang mogelijkheden tegen elkaar afwegend, bijna tot in het overdrevene toe langzaam, zo streng mogelijke maatstaven aanleggend, vatte hij zijn oordeel over een letter, een woord of een hele zin pas dan samen, wanneer hij van de onaantastbaarheid ervan zeker was.

The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day."

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.