Best 184 quotes in «discernment quotes» category

Adhering too blindly and unyieldingly to a particular party is detrimental to the wellfare of humanity. We should be discerning, watching for candidates who have a career of demonstrable justice, wisdom, compassion and goodness. Otherwise you become recordings of a party line incapable of standing up to an associated group should they legitimately be screwing up. It just becomes about BEING right instead of doing right.

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

A duke's son MUST know about poisons. It's the way of our times.

Agape Love is a Revolution, it has no Strings attached

A friend who is quick to point his or her finger at the stain or patch on your cloth in the presence of others is a friend to be feared. Be discerning!

A leader should accurately discern deceit.

According to ayurveda, we become what we surround ourselves with. And so it stands to reason that we have to be discerning about what we surround ourselves with." Steve Cope [p. 85]

A Gaint can easily fall to the level of an Ant but, an Anit can't rise to the level of a Gaint

Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence

Allergy is not all the time bad, Am Allergic to the Holy Spirit, it makes me want more of God.

And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

Anointing without a Character is a Disaster

An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it.

Believing in Jesus prevent you from failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God

A real Woman has the Spirit of Discernment, she's a critical thinker

Choose criticism wisely, it might help you improve some elements of what you do.

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

A Woman's Beauty can be Photoshopped but her character is a Reality

Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark.

Consistency is what produces Results, not Complacency. WATCH OUT!

Discernment gives you the ability to both appreciate the subtle beauty of a Renoir and spot a fake.

Destiny helpers often appear disguised as dreadful beggars. May God give you wisdom to discern and honor them.

Don't ask God to show you the way if you're not willing to get moving.

Don't be envious of the Success of others, but let it be your Motivation to thrive

Don't give the front seat of your life to those whom you should give the back seat. Don't give the back seat to those who deserve the front seat. Be discerning! Be wise!

Don't let the eyes guide the heart, but have the heart guide the eyes.

Don't build your dreams on the opinions of men but on the promises of God

Experience and Demonstrate the Agape Love, is far more than Gold - Go for it

Faith requires no Tangible Evidenve but remains Optimistic

Don't condemn what you can't comprehend

Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.

Followers and friends cannot be with you in the grave but salvation will

Even though, No one is infallible. However, spend much effort in making yourself better. Stand out! Don't follow the masses. It produces results

Following your inner guidance has a unique power all its own. Even when others can't understand it, you can feel your soul being pulled to the place it truly belongs.

Falling doesn't mean Trailing but Straining

God Doesn’t Take Delight in Earthly Sacrifices Without Spiritual Connotation, but He Takes Pleasure in Total Submission

God calls God’s people to create a new community of shalom. We must take care not to simply make God's mission into a social ethic or universal morality. God’s call is not merely a means for achieving better wages and working conditions for the enslaved. It cannot be narrowly defined as a socio-political intervention or strategy...God did not give Moses a theory of justice. God wanted to foster real, transformed, and renewed relationships among the people of Israel and the people of Egypt. Remember, the story of Israel in the land of Egypt began with friendship between a lost son and a ruler, Pharaoh and Joseph. What is broken by Israel’s slide into slavery is that original relationship. A time had come when people did not remember the blessings they have been for one another. Shalom, peace, is not a political "symbol" or "myth," but a real action of relationship that has a communal/social function in building a different kind of kingdom than the reign of humanity

God is our final say in who and what's negative and who and what's positive in our lives. It is best not to have this so over-simplified as the illusioned superstitionists have it; an infinite being's tests may not always be so flowery, and the things we may see as positive are in many cases simply desires of our sinful nature. We are to protect our spirit without falling into the narcissistic mistake of trying to protect our selfish emotions, which the latter, in turn, is more than unlikely to bring peace and happiness. But rather guilt and emptiness. When one walks around constantly, in his mind, attempting to separate positive versus negative people, he is already controlled by something even worse than those he calls the 'negative people', and that is before he spots it soon enough to avoid it as he hypocritically tries to avoid them.

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man.

For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse.

I choose Legacy over Lucre

If we have no desire to be discerning, we won't be discerning. If we are driven by a yearning to be happy, healthy, affluent, prosperous, comfortable, and self-satisfied, we will never be discerning people. If our feelings determine what we believe, we cannot be discerning. If we subjugate our minds to some earthly ecclesiastical authority and blindly believe what we are told, we undermine discernment. Unless we are willing to examine all things carefully, we cannot hope to have any defense against reckless faith.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.