Quotes About Wisdom And Discernment

#1. 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

#2. Father, give me the wisdom and discernment to hear Your still, small voice through the loudness of this world.

Anonymous

#3. 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

#4. Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

John Ferling

#5. Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

T.F. Hodge

#7. Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. Knowledge is wisdom that comes from acquiring truth. Insight is wisdom that comes from living out the truth we acquire. Discernment is wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit's reminders of that knowledge and insight.

Lysa TerKeurst

#9. Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. 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

#12. Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their discernment.

Bill Johnson

#13. The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Samuel Johnson

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. 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

#17. 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

#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. Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

Criss Jami

#22. Of all the thousands of gifts I received in my eight years in the White House, few were more welcome and needed than these twelve intangible gifts of discernment, peace, compassion, faith, fellowship, vision, forgiveness, grace, wisdom, love, joy and courage.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. Don't condemn what you can't comprehend

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#26. Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.

Criss Jami

#27. My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world.

Andrea L'Artiste

#30. 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

#31. I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...

Assegid Habtewold

#33. 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

#34. And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

Steven J. Carroll

#35. Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings; it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.

Craig D. Lounsbrough