Quotes about Discernment
Once you wake up, as Jesus and Pope Francis have, you know that cleaning up is a constant process that comes on different timetables for different people, around many different issues, and for very different motivations. This is why love and growth demand discernment, not enforcement.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
— Edmund Burke
Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
— Margaret Atwood
Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.
— John Wesley
As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
— Watchman Nee
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
— Oswald Chambers
If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?
— Stormie Omartian
If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.
— Henry Blackaby
The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer
— Catherine Marshall
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
— Richard Sibbes
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.
— Stormie Omartian
Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.
— Pope Francis