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The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment QUOTES

The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment QUOTES

1 " With discernment comes division. A person who seeks to be discerning must be willing to suffer the effects of this division. It will divide not only believer from unbeliever, but it may even divide a discerning believer from one who is undiscerning. It will separate the mature from the immature, the naïve from the prudent. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

2 " As we seek after discernment, a good and godly desire, our sinful natures will fight against us. We will soon discover a part of ourselves that does not want to make clear distinctions between what is good and evil, and a part of ourselves that does not want to be committed to what is good and right and true. And so the first enemy we must overcome in our discipline of discernment is ourselves. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

3 " The Bible places great emphasis on spiritual maturity because, like children, immature believers are prone to sample anything. They are attracted to what looks good to their untrained eyes. Only as they grow in maturity are they able to differentiate between what pleases God and what does not. Because of this there can be no growth without discernment. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

4 " and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight." The word translated as "insight" is a Hebrew equivalent to "discernment. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

5 " This word deposit is taken from the ancient world. In the age before personal safes and safe deposit boxes, a person who was going to be away for some time might ask another to care for a treasured possession. He would entrust this possession to another, depositing it to him, and this person was bound by a sacred oath to protect it.8 In his letters to Timothy, Paul, who knows that he will not always be able to encourage and mentor Timothy, entrusts to him the gospel message. Timothy would be expected to guard this message and to find worthy, godly Christians to whom he could in turn entrust it. And so the gospel has been protected and has carried from one generation to the next through the long, storied history of the church. And so it has been handed in trust to you and to me and to all who believe. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

6 " Key Thought The Bible teaches there is a clear relationship between spiritual discernment and spiritual maturity. For a Christian to be mature, he must also be discerning. Those who are not discerning must be immature, backsliding, or dead. Conversely, those who exhibit discernment must be alive, growing, and mature. It is clear from Scripture that all Christians are expected to pursue discernment, for the Bible cries out repeatedly for us to do so. It is the responsibility of each Christian to heed and to answer the call and so to guard the deposit God has entrusted to us. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

7 " El mal solo puede hacer una parodia del bien, no puede inventar formas de belleza y gozo genuinos "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

8 " Cuando Dios nos da un don, podemos esperar que también nos de pasión [...]. La persona apasionada por acoger a otros en su hogar, muy bien podría tener el don de hospitalidad; la persona que le encanta organizar reuniones, podría estar dotada de con un tipo de liderazgo; la que se apasiona por la verdad de Dios, podría estar dotada de discernimiento. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

9 " We have truth, righteousness, faith, salvation, and the Spirit to guard us. We have the Word of God to battle for us. Through it all we pray to the Spirit to protect and guide us against the schemes of the devil. In this way we can fight against and overcome the spiritual forces that are set against us and committed to our downfall. We can wage war against and defeat the spiritual forces that seek to lead us away from discernment by offering a clever and subtle counterfeit of the truth. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

10 " When we have rejected the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture, we allow Christians to depend on things other than the Bible as their guide to matters of life and faith. In particular, people begin to depend upon mysticism, upon ways of supposedly knowing God apart from the Bible. They look inward for intrinsic wisdom rather than outward to the Bible for its extrinsic wisdom. They forsake biblical reason in favor of feelings, voices, visions, or other subjective means of supposedly knowing God. This is a deadly error, for spiritual discernment must be founded upon God's objective revelation of himself in Scripture. We can only judge between what is wrong and what is right when we know what God says to be true. We can know this only from Scripture. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

11 " Key Thought Because discernment is a good and noble pursuit, it is one that has been opposed on all fronts. It will continue to be opposed by our sinful natures, by satanic forces, and by cultural influences. As Christians we must stand firm against all of these forces, trusting in God to equip and to sustain us, for while discernment is a difficult calling, it is one with ultimate benefits. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

12 " And Richard Phillips writes, "Theology bores today's Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

13 " We live in an age where too many who profess to be Christians rarely consider their spiritual maturity - an age when many consider spiritual immaturity a mark of authenticity, and when people associate doubt with humility and assurance with pride. Far too many people consider sound theology the mark of a person who is argumentative and proud. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

14 " Solo podemos juzgar entre lo bueno y lo malo cuando sepamos lo que Dios dice que es cierto. Esto solo lo podemos conocer de las escrituras. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

15 " No conocemos todo lo que hay que conocer, pero lo que Dios nos enseña a través de la Biblia es verdadero y digno de confianza. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

16 " God honored Solomon's request because he was pleased with what Solomon had asked. This teaches us that God values discernment and honors those who seek after it. "

― Tim Challies , The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment