Quotes about Discernment
They will readily change truth for error, who find no more sweetness in the one than in the other.
- John Owen
The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.
- Bob Sorge
We don't get a vision from God by going to conferences. We might get some good ideas, but God-ideas are only revealed in the presence of God.
- Mark Batterson
We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.
- Mark Batterson
the purpose of prayer is not to get what you want; the goal of prayer is to discern what God wants
- Mark Batterson
And it's often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say.
- Mark Batterson
If you want to hear His comforting voice, you have to listen to His convicting voice.
- Mark Batterson
Obedience starts with a pierced ear. It's tuning into God's frequency and turning up the volume. It's obeying His whispers, even if a thousand people are screaming something different. 'Tell me to what you pay attention,' said the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, 'and I will tell you who are you.' You will eventually be shaped in the image of the loudest voice in your life. Genuine listening is ultimately an act of submission.
- Mark Batterson
We are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.
- Mark Batterson
I don't have any more wisdom in our courage for this journey than you do. Maybe less. But if you could use a traveling companion, I would come along. I would be only like one of those two men on the road to Emmaus, mostly confused myself, with a slow heart that burned within. Maybe together we would be able to discern Christ on the road beside us.
- Mark Buchanan
As in every other topic, our regular practice as Christians should be to seek God's will in his Word, either by explicit command or by reasoning from principles in the Word. We want to see that the answer is in the Bible.
- Mark Dever
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
- Mark Twain