Discernment Quotes

Marriage is not about 'I' or 'You', but 'Us'. The former is a Fallacy

~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

If you have not suffered opposition in the journey of life, then, you are not real.

~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

In God, the majority is not always right, enter through the narrow gate

~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.

~ Criss Jami

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise –– even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.

~ Dan Smith

It's neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo that we have a problem with, but rather judgment according to God's Word that we have a problem with. We sharply dress ourselves, go out into the world, shape ourselves, our personalities according to the world's standards and preferences, allow ourselves to be made dull by the world and its desires in order to appear successful and happy and attractive in the eyes of the world. We love the world's judgment but we hate God's judgment. Absurdly enough, the one that really matters, the one out of the purest of loves rather than a mere contract in hopes of mutual gain, is the one which we so adamantly try to shut ourselves off from.

~ Criss Jami

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

~ John Adams

There are so many charlatans in the world of education. They teach for a couple of years, come up with a few clever slogans, build their websites, and hit the lecture circuit. In this fast-food-society, simple solutions to complex problems are embraced far too often. We can do better. I hope that people who read this book realize that true excellence takes sacrifice, mistakes, and enormous amounts of effort. After all, there are no shortcuts.

~ Rafe Esquith

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

~ Charles Dickens

Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

~ John Ferling

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

~ Criss Jami

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

~ Criss Jami

One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.

~ Anne Hill

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

~ Criss Jami

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

~ Criss Jami

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

~ Warren Buffett

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

~ Kellen Roggenbuck

If you don't understand another person then don't be quick to judge them. Judgment comes from the reasoning mind of logic. Rather, seek to understand others from your heart space. Discernment provides clarity and clarity will always make provision for higher levels of understanding. Love is magick of itself and we are Love's vessels by choice, not by chance.

~ Mishi Mccoy

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

~ Criss Jami

Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Orrin Woodward

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

~ Sherry Turkle

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Criss Jami

Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their intelligence and humanity. It seems to be a normal although unfortunate case that the great many of us consciously abhor ignorance in others yet subconsciously practice it ourselves: as naivety is apparent and well-known to inflict its damage upon oneself; whereas the alternative and the easier, ignorance, its damage upon others.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Criss Jami

Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.

~ Criss Jami

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

~ Criss Jami

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

~ Criss Jami

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

~ Criss Jami

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around 'negative people' is the mark of real positivity.

~ Criss Jami