Discernment Quotes

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Mark Twain

Learning discernment is a lifelong project, and wisdom is hard-won.

Jeanie Miley

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers.

Euripides

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

Charles R Swindoll

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

Oswad Chambers

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

Goethe

Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

Charles Spurgeon

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Ferdinand Foch

God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us together with other believers, produce discernment, foster sensitivity, discipline our minds, spend our time wisely, stretch our hope, cause us to know Christ better, make us long for truth, lead us to repentance of sin, teach us to give thanks in time of sorrow, increase faith, and strengthen character.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

John Adams

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

Corrie ten Boom

Sometimes you can tell what something is by what is isn't.

Kenneth Copeland

One of the most dangerous traps for the believer is a good thing that's not a God thing.

Andrena Sawyer