Quotes About Discerning God's Will

#1. If you were to second guess your decision to book some time to visit an Indian community, that would be a reservation reservation reservation.

Brian Regan

#2. I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

Scott Hamilton

#4. The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

John Lancaster Spalding

#5. Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen ... God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time.

Charles R. Swindoll

#8. A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart.
Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.

Nido Qubein

#9. One of the greatest joys of not judging others is becoming capable of discerning God's will in a difficult situation. Pg 152

John Kuypers

#10. I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Oswald Chambers

#11. Discerning God's calling is more a relationship than a route, more journey than destination. It's about who you are becoming more than where you are going. Perhaps it's less about what you do and more about how well you do whatever you do.

Levi Lusko

#12. Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.

Stephen Charnock

#13. Do you have a situation in which you're having trouble discerning whether God is protecting you or Satan is hindering you? Ask God to show you His way.

Os Hillman

#14. He stuck out like a cabbage in a rose garden

J.L. Delozier

#15. Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.

John Piper

#17. Poison ivy and deer crap and rocks. Oh, my!

Dia Reeves

#18. I love performing, and it allows me to be very discerning about what I choose next, thank god.

Joel McHale

#19. 12For w the word of God is living and x active, y sharper than any z two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and a discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Anonymous

#20. The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

Bill Vaughan

#21. 18For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.

Anonymous

#22. Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.

Gene Robinson