Quotes about Discernment

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

Look, the American people are smart.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

One would not generally put garbage into the stomach, but too often one will put garbage into the mind.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, What are your thinking about? you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

That cucumber is bitter, so toss it out!

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.