Discernment Quotes - Page 2

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Never let your desire to have an accepting heart towards others keep you from your strong boundaries. The hurricane may come blasting at our door; yet it doesn’t mean we have to invite it in for tea. Sometimes, it’s important to recognize that the hurricane is a powerful and damaging storm, not a light spring shower.

Alaric Hutchinson

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

The Anointing attracts Antagonism

Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Falling doesn't mean Trailing but Straining

Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Vision defect leads to Copycat

Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Until you are Tried and Tested, Your Greatness will have no meaning

Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence

Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

It is better to Leap than to Sleep

Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Love cannot be FAKED, It will eventually Reveal itself in Action

Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Unconditional Love is the Trafficator for a Good Marriage

Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Even though, No one is infallible. However, spend much effort in making yourself better. Stand out! Don't follow the masses. It produces results

Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.

Well, this has been some shit.

Pat Shand

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

The parent is the child's guide. This shepherding process helps a child to understand himself and the world in which he lives. The parent shepherds a child to assess himself and his responses. He shepherds the child to understand not just the "what" of the child's actions, but also the "why." As the shepherd, you want to help your child understand himself as a creature made by and for God. You cannot show him these things merely by instruction; you must lead him on a path of discovery. You must shepherd his thoughts, helping him to learn discernment and wisdom.

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

Shannon L. Alder

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.

Shannon L. Alder

What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around 'negative people' is the mark of real positivity.

Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their intelligence and humanity. It seems to be a normal although unfortunate case that the great many of us consciously abhor ignorance in others yet subconsciously practice it ourselves: as naivety is apparent and well-known to inflict its damage upon oneself; whereas the alternative and the easier, ignorance, its damage upon others.

God is our final say in who and what's negative and who and what's positive in our lives. It is best not to have this so over-simplified as the illusioned superstitionists have it; an infinite being's tests may not always be so flowery, and the things we may see as positive are in many cases simply desires of our sinful nature. We are to protect our spirit without falling into the narcissistic mistake of trying to protect our selfish emotions, which the latter, in turn, is more than unlikely to bring peace and happiness. But rather guilt and emptiness. When one walks around constantly, in his mind, attempting to separate positive versus negative people, he is already controlled by something even worse than those he calls the 'negative people', and that is before he spots it soon enough to avoid it as he hypocritically tries to avoid them.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

If you don't understand another person then don't be quick to judge them. Judgment comes from the reasoning mind of logic. Rather, seek to understand others from your heart space. Discernment provides clarity and clarity will always make provision for higher levels of understanding. Love is magick of itself and we are Love's vessels by choice, not by chance.

Don't ask God to show you the way if you're not willing to get moving.

Kellen Roggenbuck

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.

Anne Hill

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

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