#discern

Though there are many times that we could have avoided rough situations if we had the right amount of wisdom to do so, there are some instances that we just have to go through in order to gain the experience and knowledge that we need to accomplish the destiny that God has for our lives. ↗

— POB Bismark

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When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title. ↗

— Criss Jami

#discernment #equality #geniune #human #human-being

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. ↗

— Jules Verne

#after #alone #been #black #could

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

— Corrie Ten Boom

#discernment #god #never

To invent is to discern, to choose. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#discern #invent

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#discern #facts #historian #make #nothing

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

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To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#discern #enter #faults #god #ground

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attractiveness #compassion #comprehensive #defamation #discernment