Quotes About God's Discernment

#1. A man without God's discernment loses the peace of God.

Sunday Adelaja

#2. This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

David Jeremiah

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

Criss Jami

#4. Don't build your dreams on the opinions of men but on the promises of God

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#5. 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 Miller

#6. In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

Criss Jami

#7. It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

H.W. Brands

#8. The church of Jesus Christ ought to be the last people to fall for hucksters and demagogues. After all, the church bears the Spirit of God, who gifts the Body with discernment and wisdom. But too often we do.

Russell D. Moore

#9. It is great to be desperate for the word of God. It is also assential to have the spirit of discernment because there are many vultures and wolves in sheep skin in the Body of Christ. They are longing to devour those who are genuinely seeking for Kingdom of God.

Euginia Herlihy

#10. Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?

Steven Curtis Chapman

#11. My wisdom absent of God's wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse.

Geraldine Brooks

#13. 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

#14. To live faithfully in the time between the times is to walk a tightrope of moral discernment, claiming neither too much nor too little for God's transforming power within the community of faith.

Richard B. Hays

#15. The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.

Pope Benedict XVI

#16. God protects us from Satan even at times when we are not aware of His protection. But how can we develop Jesus-like discernment? By Spirit-aided digestion of the solid food of God's wisdom.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#17. When God moves, everybody will be blessed. If something is of the flesh, everybody will have a sick feeling. And if something is of the devil, it seems like the hair will stand up on your neck. That's a simple way everyone can judge, whether they've got any spiritual discernment or not.

Kenneth E. Hagin

#18. The wisdom to be on the throne of one's life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.

William Stringfellow

#20. More times than I'm willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I'm willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. Everything in discernment of spirits is directed toward action: toward firmly accepting what is of God and equally firmly rejecting what is not.

Timothy M. Gallagher

#22. To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

Oswald Chambers

#23. The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

Joyce Meyer

#24. In the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart ... It's motto is
" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

Oswald Chambers

#25. Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately - to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.

Charles F. Stanley

#26. Thus, a believer may ask four questions: What does God's law require? How can I gain godly character? How can I find God's path for me? How can I gain wisdom and discernment?

Anonymous

#27. It is vitally important for women to learn how to think biblically for themselves instead of being enslaved to other people's thoughts and opinions. To truly follow God with everything in our lives, we must learn to develop discernment.

Sally Clarkson

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

Oswald Chambers

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

Corrie Ten Boom

#30. To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.

Criss Jami

#31. Believers need the gift of discernment, or at least respect for the opinions of those who have it ... believers are to test the various spirits and doctrines that abound.
Most of all we are to test them against the
standard of the Word of God.

Billy Graham

#32. He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man.

Augustine Of Hippo

#33. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself - begin to have spiritual discernment.

Oswald Chambers

#34. A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

Bill Crawford

#35. Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

Rodger Kamenetz

#36. 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.

Jim George

#37. It takes discernment and God's help to know when we have to keep on trying or let go and let God, and if you trust God to lead you, He'll make sure you don't miss out on His best.

Jamie Larbi

#38. Discernment is first of all a habit, a way of seeing that eventually permeates our whole life. It is the journey from spiritual blindness (not seeing God anywhere or seeing him only where we expect to see him) to spiritual sight (finding God everywhere, especially where we least expect it).

Ruth Haley Barton

#39. God honored Solomon's request because he was pleased with what Solomon had asked. This teaches us that God values discernment and honors those who seek after it.

Tim Challies

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#41. Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes.

Criss Jami

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

Kellen Roggenbuck