Quotes about Discernment

The heart of the righteous weighs its answers" (Prov. 15:28).

We were meant to see more than our physical eyes can see,

True prayer intercessors have double vision. They see in the natural and they see in the spirit.

First, we must learn to read the Bible with our heads, in order to understand what is actually, objectively, being said. And second, we must learn to read it with our hearts, in order to experience God's voice through its pages. By carefully studying the Bible, we come to understand what its writers were originally saying. And by prayerfully exploring it, we learn to discern what the Holy Spirit is saying to us now.

The Bible shows us that obedience to God is not about cutting and pasting the Bible over our lives, but seeking the path of wisdom—holding the sacred book in one hand and ourselves, our communities of faith, and our world in the other in order to discern how the God of old is present here and now.

Doing the best as we can to figure out life, to discern how or if a certain proverb applies right here and now, is not an act of disloyalty toward God, rebellion against God's clear rulebook for life. It is, rather, our sacred responsibility as people of faith.

I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.

“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,