Quotes about Discernment
If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?
— Stormie Omartian
If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.
— Henry Blackaby
The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer
— Catherine Marshall
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
— Richard Sibbes
It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.
— Stormie Omartian
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
— JI Packer
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
— Oswald Chambers
Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
— Andy Stanley
Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
— William Saroyan
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
— Woodrow Wilson
It goes back to the passage from Proverbs. We don't know what to do, where to go, or how. So I thought we'd try and take this time to find out what we want, and what God wants, and pray for each other.
— Davis Bunn
The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day."
— Elie Wiesel