Top 15 Discernment Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Discernment Quotes from famous people such as Coretta Scott King, Pope Francis, Tyler Henry, Corrie Ten Boom, Sharon Salzberg, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother’s discernment and my father’s strength.
Coretta Scott King
My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.
Pope Francis
For me in readings, I really have to be diplomatic and use discernment in what comes through because there is a lot that comes through and it oftentimes is very personal.
Tyler Henry
Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
Corrie Ten Boom
Love and compassion don’t at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.
Sharon Salzberg
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
Joan Halifax
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
Lewis B. Smedes
Schooling people in the ways of ongoing discernment produces a greater receptivity to the tradition of the church and at the same time creates the freedom that will make them more responsive to the will of God throughout their lives.
Blase J. Cupich
As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is – so that he neither seek it nor flee it.
Apollonius of Tyana
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.
Julian Baggini
Her great merit is finding out mine – there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Lord Byron
We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
Charles R. Swindoll
It’s more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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