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Quotes about Discernment

But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Millions of professing Christians are deceived; they are walking in ways that simply are not biblical. Their values, their responses, their relation ships, their choices, and their priorities reveal that they have bought into the lie of the Enemy and embraced the world's way of thinking.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.
- Nancy Pearcey
Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he's shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.
- Nelson Mandela
you ought not judge" is itself a judgment! (Pluralists misinterpret Jesus' comments on judging [Matt. 7:1-5]. Jesus did not prohibit judging as such, only judging hypocritically.)
- Norman Geisler
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
- Norman Geisler
Some people have a sense of unearthly things, just as others have an excellent sense of smell or hearing or taste. They can feel the subtle shifts in the great and complicated body of the world. And some of these have so honed that inner sight that they can even tell where a holy spark has fallen, notice its glow in the very place you would least expect it. The worse the place, the more fervently the spark gleams, flickers— and the warmer and purer is its light.
- Olga Tokarczuk
There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put
- Os Guinness
We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.
- Os Guinness
There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.
- Os Guinness
You can judge a culture by what it talks about and what it refuses to talk about, and talk of "spiritual warfare" would be a useful litmus test today.
- Os Guinness
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
- Os Guinness