Quotes about Discernment

It is the epoch of threatening disaster, ruin, and persecution which divides the sheep from the goats

I could never describe it to anyone how I knew, but there was no mistaking it. One moment, I was walking along undecided - and the next moment, I knew that it was God's will for me to go to America. I don't think I could describe it any more accurately.

Wisdom is better than flattery, even if bitter in your ears.

A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather.

A slap from an angel will make you wiserthan a kiss from the devil.

In a group of intelligent men expect only one to be wise.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Many symptoms of systemic sin sickness boil to the surface and erupt for all to see between the time a society determines to turn its back on God and the time a people become so wicked that God gives up pleading for them to repent because their hearts and minds can't be turned again to Him. It is incumbent upon Christians, who have the capability to discern the signs pointing to how near is the time when God's judgment must fall, to be watchmen on the wall.

Feel-good answers are not enough. Twice, the book of Proverbs tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."