Discernment Quotes Page 2

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes.

Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

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

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

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

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either;

they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

You see, but you do not observe.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style.

Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing.

The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.

Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong;

rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.

Even as the finite encloses an infinite series And in the unlimited limits appear, So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia And in the narrowest limits no limit in here. What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

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.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned.

You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.

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.

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

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

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection.

It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself.