Quotes About Spiritual Discernment

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. He chuckled. She turned to see what was funny and nearly had a heart attack.
He was holding one hot-pink-and-white mug while reading it, the other sitting on the counter: 'Men should be like my curtains, easy to pull and well hung.

Terry Spear

#4. People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#5. She took to reading with a fervor so extreme, Baba Joseph had to take the books from her hands by force. 'Your eyes are not tractors. They are not meant to pull heavy loads,' he said sternly.

Nancy Farmer

#6. The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

Eugene H. Peterson

#7. Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created barbaric organizations like ISIS.

Hillary Clinton

#9. Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

Diane Dreher

#10. We will not be able to meet the challenges of integration and the threats posed by international terrorism. If we want to prevent attacks, we'll need more information and better integration.

Wolfgang Schauble

#11. If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.

Maxine Kumin

#12. - this is where I live now. If you had known me
once, you'd still know me now though in a different
light and life. This is no place you ever knew me.

Adrienne Rich

#13. He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

Dashiell Hammett

#14. Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat life like ill-fitting wondering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again

E.E.D. Horton

#16. I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Nick Carter

#17. Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale ... at the moment.

Vera Nazarian

#18. 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

#19. A duke's son MUST know about poisons. It's the way of our times.

Frank Herbert

#20. 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

#21. What I had wasn't enough. I wanted more than enough.

Jay McLean

#22. She knew about young boys - she'd spent the last year taking care of them. They were tough and reckless and yet at the same time so very sweet and vulnerable. Their cheeks were soft and their eyes apologized even as they fought to assert their independence with too smart mouths.

Elizabeth Hoyt