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Tag Name "Discernment" (80)

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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
Al Franken
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One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.
Louis L'Amour
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Arthur Miller
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When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
Criss Jami
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Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.
Criss Jami
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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Marshall McLuhan
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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
Corrie Ten Boom
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I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.
Kellan Lutz
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Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.
Robert Nozick
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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Albert Einstein
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Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
Pliny the Younger
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Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the horizon, they know it instantaneously. So we're a discernment ministry, continually trying to build Christians up so that they can discern between truth and error.
Hank Hanegraaff
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire
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If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Albert Einstein
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Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
Sydney J. Harris
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .
Simone Weil
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It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.
Silouan the Athonite
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To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
William Hazlitt
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Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel
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You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.
Louise Bourgeois
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Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.
Paulo Freire
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