Discerning Quotes

“By looking for the unexpected and discerning the surreptitious features in the scenery within us, we apprehend our personality, find out our identity and learn how to cultivate it. Taking care of our fingerprints will be an enduring endeavor. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Willful blindness” may hinder us from discerning the critical fault lines in the narrative of our life. Our memory may obliterate then the crucial elements that are vital to really come to know ourselves. ("Non mais, t'as vu l'heure !")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him.”
― Christina Dodd, Tongue In Chic

“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, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Advantages never comes free. You have to create it the way you want it!”
― Ashish Patel

“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm straying around in other people's lives. That sort of vague sympathy with everybody precludes any real understanding of anybody . . . And it precludes any real loyalty to anybody.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Maybe the greatest power of all is the power of restraint.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I look way back to the beginning of ‘whatever this is’ that I’m stuck in the middle of, I suddenly realize that ‘whatever this is’ got started by ‘whatever it is’ that I was doing. And I can be utterly confident in the fact that ‘whatever it is’ that I was doing, it wasn’t thinking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The bigger the call, the smaller the voice. Therefore, we’d be wise to ignore anything that’s shouting.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I’m going to write something that moves the masses and seizes one’s soul, I have to force myself to sit and watch life long before I ever attempt to sit and write about it. For without the watching the writing doesn’t matter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Just because ‘these shoes were made for walking’ doesn’t mean that we should use them on any old road.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

“The definition of living is not based on the number of years spent, but on the degree to which we’ve spent ourselves in the living of them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Trying listening with more than just your ears.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you are truly in touch with your sensuality, you will discern the truth about EVERYTHING.”
― Lebo Grand

“The hardness of the fall will be determined by the hardness of the questions that we refused to ask.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The Bible is a book of wisdom. And unless we are wise enough to understand how wise we are not, the Bible will we read not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My uncle once said that the mark of a man is not that he is powerful. To the contrary, the mark of a man is that no one would ever presume him to be powerful because he held power lightly and always used it sparingly.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“14 For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it. (Job 33:14 NLT)”
― Loretta Gibson

“What are we doing next, God?”
― Loretta Gibson, Discerning Downloads: Hearing God's Audible Voice over 60 Years

“My lack of questioning does not come from gullibility or naivety, rather, I piece together the reality by discerning intent.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“Intelligence without wisdom is knowledge being stupid.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“For any recipe writer, the mark of success isn't teaching people how to cook well, it's showing them how to think well about food, of which 90 per cent is just about having the confidence to disagree. Margaret got into the history of things, explaining that flummery-- a jellied fruit cream-- used to be set with the shavings of the horn of a young deer, and then was made using the gelatinous powers of simmered calves' foot, and then with isinglass-- a collagen derived from the swim bladder of a fish. In the end, she gave you a more down-to-earth raspberry syllabub recipe with Sauternes, rosewater and cream. Margaret could give a detailed appraisal of tinned foods or she could convince you-- like she convinced me-- that a cheese soufflé isn't just a reasonable proposition but in fact an easy midweek lunch. 'Why should people enjoy cooking?' Margaret would say, because she knew it was her job to put forward a case.”
― Ruby Tandoh, All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now