Quotes about Discernment

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

A bad person's character cannot be trusted, it's weak and indecisive, easily won over by different impressions at different times.

The wise are known for their few words.

God intends that we mature in learning to recognize how he speaks and guides us through our feelings.

The issue is not, by any means, to blindly follow our feelings, but to acknowledge them as a part of the way God communicates to us.

In other words, says Abbot Bernard, if you're not concerned that your heart might become hard, it already is. A hardened heart is a big problem for a leader in any context, but it will utterly derail any hope of being able to clearly hear and do the will of God.

All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

He was so strong." "Compared to Yesu, he is weak. The evil one is but a gou, a dog on a leash." "I've . . . never heard a demon's voice before." "You are wrong." "What do you mean?" "It is not that you have never heard the voices of demons, but that you haven't known you were hearing them." Quan put his hand on Ben's trembling arm. "In America, the voices of demons sound more pleasant.