335 Quotes About Discernment

Some people seem safe and comfortable to be with in the early interactions, but overtime you notice this isn’t the experience. Know you can trust yourself and use discernment to determine whether a relationship works for your life now. If it doesn’t, simply walk away with grace and clarity about who you are and the people you want to spend time with.

More recently, artists have portrayed the overshadowing of Mary as a kind of sexual ecstasy, but these interpretations say more about us than they do about Luke or Mary. The other modern trend, which is to “demythologize” Mary’s experience by arguing that Luke has derived her calling narrative from those other more monstrous mythologies, misses the point.

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.

Pray for spiritual intelligence. It will help you grow in faith and teach you discernment.

Our sense of our own calling must begin with curiosity about how God has called God's people from the very beginning, because the vocations held within the Church are not simply vocations of a "New Testament" kind, but are rooted in the authority of the patriarchs and matriarchs of Israel.

For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse.

Wisdom at the bottom of a well sees further than intelligence at the rooftop.

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

Sometimes you can tell what something is by what is isn't.