Quotes about Discernment

What must be seen is not mere news and not mere knowledge. What must be seen is light.

What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.

All our habits, tastes, and inclinations must be educated in harmony with the laws of life and health. By this means we may secure the very best physical conditions, and have mental clearness to discern between the evil and the good.—

We also, while loyal to truth, should try to avoid all that may lead to discord and misapprehension. For whenever these arise, they result in the loss of souls. Whenever circumstances occur that threaten to cause division, we should follow the example of Jesus and of John the Baptist.

The love of money is the root of all evil. It blinds the vision and prevents people from discerning their obligations to God or to their neighbors.

So of course when it came time to decide what to do with my life, I decided to go to seminary. What else do you do when you are in love with God?

Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.