Discernment Quotes

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.

~ Criss Jami

How shall a man judge what to do in such times?''As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear...It is a man's part to discern them, as much in th Golden Wood as in his own house.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.

~ Criss Jami

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Criss Jami

One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.

~ David Anthony Durham

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

~ Criss Jami

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

~ Criss Jami

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

~ Criss Jami

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

~ H.w. Brands

An assumption is the joke, truth the punchline.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Anthony Liccione

Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

~ Criss Jami

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

~ Lyndon Johnson

We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.

~ Olivier Magny

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

~ Criss Jami

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

~ Criss Jami

Life is worth more than man will ever know. Each of our choices open up the possibility of a different world. Every time we wake up, the universe puts itself in our hands. So many paths. So many choices. Our discernment is the only way to tell which one leads to happiness.

~ Thierry Cohen

Ladies: There are some men who will listen to all of your desires simply to use them to control you. #LearnToDiscernListen to what he does, Watch what he says and avoid the heartbreak.

~ A.h. Carlisle Iii

My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Frank Herbert

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

~ Kevin Deyoung

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

~ Criss Jami

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.

~ Joseph Epstein

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.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

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

~ Elder David A. Bednar

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.

~ Criss Jami

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

~ Criss Jami

Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon