Top 133 Discernment Quotes & Sayings

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.

Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

The more validation I need, the less discernment I have.

Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.

True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy.

When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede

Spirit discernment is rare because it is expensive. It means a sensitive conscience, an instructed understanding through study of the Book of God. It means a passion for purity, for truth, for the right, for Christ Himself, and for living uncompromisingly true in the daily habit. All this lies back of a seeing spirit eye. And these things cost. Discernment is expensive.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

The sweetest feeling you can have in this world is to feel the hand of the Lord upon your shoulder. In my patriarchal blessing as a boy, I was promised that I would have the gift of discernment. I have to acknowledge that such a declaration has been abundantly fulfilled in my life.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

For me in readings, I really have to be diplomatic and use discernment in what comes through because there is a lot that comes through and it oftentimes is very personal.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, . . . stubborn will.

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

I am so tired of criticalness being called discernment. Do you want to know true discernment? Paul said "That your love may abound in all discernment." When you are willing to die for somebody that is when you are actually discerning them. Jesus could call the Pharisees hypocrites and snakes because he went to the cross and died for them. So the next time you are quote "discerning" about somebody ask yourselves the question could you die for them? If you can`t say yes, you're critical because the love of God is to lay down your life for them, and discernment is rooted only in love. Got it?

Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their “discernment.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

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

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.