Quotes about Discernment

Your capacity to say 'No' determines your capacity to say 'Yes' to greater things.

Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

Worldly love (licentiousness) seeks to endorse or embrace everything. It begins from the false dichotomy that we either accept without question people's beliefs and behavior (unless it is obviously destructive to someone else) or we are unloving. As a result, we cannot address underlying sin or rebellion. Thus, love is set as opposite to judgment.

A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt's friend's cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about "all the contradictions in the Bible," it will consume you and your joy.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of eye and mind for symmetry, harmony, and order.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

By their fruits ye shall know them.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.

Judge not according to the appearance.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are showed unto thee than men understand.

A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.