Discernment Quotes

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

~ Criss Jami

What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.

~ Criss Jami

In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

~ Criss Jami

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.

~ Criss Jami

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The parent is the child's guide. This shepherding process helps a child to understand himself and the world in which he lives. The parent shepherds a child to assess himself and his responses. He shepherds the child to understand not just the what of the child's actions, but also the why. As the shepherd, you want to help your child understand himself as a creature made by and for God. You cannot show him these things merely by instruction; you must lead him on a path of discovery. You must shepherd his thoughts, helping him to learn discernment and wisdom.

~ Tedd Tripp

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

~ Jim George

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

~ Criss Jami

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

~ Criss Jami

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.

~ Criss Jami

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Well, this has been some shit.

~ Pat Shand

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.

~ Criss Jami

John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

~ Paul C. Nagel

The author holds up for inspection the fallacy of The Closed-Door Method wherein Christ's followers assume that if a decision is difficult to make it is not His will for us to make it because He would obviously not want us to do anything difficult.

~ David Platt

Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?

~ Steven Curtis Chapman

To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.

~ Criss Jami

Discernment is trust put into practice.

~ Peter Santos

Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants...then she is not the one.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Until you are Tried and Tested, Your Greatness will have no meaning

~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Love cannot be FAKED, It will eventually Reveal itself in Action

~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

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

~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion.

~ Criss Jami

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

~ Criss Jami

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.

~ Criss Jami

Never let your desire to have an accepting heart towards others keep you from your strong boundaries. The hurricane may come blasting at our door; yet it doesn’t mean we have to invite it in for tea. Sometimes, it’s important to recognize that the hurricane is a powerful and damaging storm, not a light spring shower.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

~ Criss Jami

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

~ Criss Jami

Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.

~ Unarine Ramaru

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

~ Unarine Ramaru

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

~ Criss Jami

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

~ Robert Greene

The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out the media's insistent portrayal of Christianity and feel grateful that he isn't as deceived as the masses who really swallow the garbage. Ignorance is ultimately how people put themselves down, and the mere Christian who knows what entails the mere Christian is ultimately free from such.

~ Criss Jami

What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men of God, others use the new laws of anti-religious anger to tear down men of God.

~ Criss Jami