Quotes about Discernment

We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature

If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.

there is an early stage "holiness" that looks like the real thing, but it isn't.

There is a deeper voice of God, which you must learn to hear and obey in the second half of life.

Once you wake up, as Jesus and Pope Francis have, you know that cleaning up is a constant process that comes on different timetables for different people, around many different issues, and for very different motivations. This is why love and growth demand discernment, not enforcement.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.