discernments

He could be fierce, rhetorically; but those whom he led through the thickets of religious quandaries, vocational discernments, or psychological crises knew him to be remarkably patient and gentle.

A True Pastor 2009

Aristotle, for one, despite his countless achievements, never exhibited any ability to get past his noise-maker while conducting discernments.

Wounded Trust, Lost Revenues 2009

The Church takes her time in these discernments and I'm sure knows better than us why.

a failure to communicate Dymphna 2007

Lastly, all that is contained therein is in submission unto maturer discernments; and, as

Religio Medici 2007

Fear and desperation are the best stimuli for falling into mistakes, for making people lurch, for setting one's principles aside because painful impatience can push one to attack without making important discernments.

06/05/2005 - 06/12/2005 2005

Fear and desperation are the best stimuli for falling into mistakes, for making people lurch, for setting one's principles aside because painful impatience can push one to attack without making important discernments.

The fear factory (Castro in Venezuela) 2005

But in fact to look at the history of theology, the way in which theological controversies arise, are dealt with, are resolved or not resolved, is to see again and again that the disciplines there, the discernments there, are about finding your way in the world, understanding what a life looks like that is lived in response to the God of Jesus Christ.

CEFACS lecture, Birmingham 2004

Each exercise of sense we take to discriminate between true and false life, true and false pleasure, true and false charmers, is a training of the intellect and judgment to more delicate discernments, and more virtuous and vital joys.

Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

But in the Russian war his intense party spirit and endless mistakes have lowered his ... intellectual discernments.

Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

Ordinarily there would not be much significance in two persons having the same given name, but our hero was a man subject to wonderful discernments -- a man who builded on the slightest incident -- and from that instant he had more than an ordinary interest in the missing Amalie

A Successful Shadow A Detective's Successful Quest Harlan Page Halsey