When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.
Orrin WoodwardTags: priorities discernment
Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.
Criss JamiTags: self-control judgment conscience critic father discernment son motives relation grandfather
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
Corrie ten BoomTags: discernment
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.
Robert GreeneTags: self-esteem mistakes forgetfulness offense discernment patterns failures setbacks
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.
Criss JamiTags: art perspective creativity artist painting discernment masterpiece iridescence
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
Criss JamiTags: art perception acceptance perspective judgment understanding bad artist misunderstood painting discernment bad-guy villain antagonist anti-hero antihero
You will be taken through training, tests and practice of being about to tell the difference between what's counterfeit over what is real. During training you're not taught to study the thousands of fake bills, for example, you are taught to KNOW the authentic ones. So, no matter how the counterfeit is disguised, you will immediately discern that it's not real.
Yvonne PierreTags: discernment discerning discern
The word of wisdom is missing,” he continued. “We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of spiritual penetration and interpretation, the ability to appraise the religious scene as viewed from God’s position, and to tell us what is actually going on
A.W. TozerTags: discernment spiritual-leadership
We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.
Richard RohrTags: reaction self-righteousness discernment
I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.
Keith MillerTags: obedience discernment god-s-will
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