Sentence examples for discernment process from inspiring English sources

Steps 7 to 11 are often called the "discernment process," designed to help a candidate discern a calling to the ministry.

Such a discernment process was, and is, threatening to those whose fragile authority and power is rocked by a real engagement with "the joy and hope, the grief and anxiety of the people of our time".

The entire group realized that this decision was a discernment process for me.

There is a reason the discernment process takes years, not six weeks.

And, last but not least, engagement rings and wedding bands are carefully selected with the infamous "Four Cs" of diamonds (color, cut, clarity, carat) leading the discernment process.

Not only do we have a high school senior who is fully immersed in her college application process, but even MORE stressful -- we have an 8th grader beginning to go through the high school discernment process in San Francisco.

Anyone who has watched T.S.A. agents spending 10 minutes patting down 80-year-old grandmothers, or seen dismayed youths being ordered back into the scanner booth by agents connected wirelessly to other invisible agents gazing at images of these people in a state of near-nakedness, has to ask: What form of group madness is it that forsakes judgment and discernment for process run amok?

Alexander Schleber, Antwerp, Belgium Racial profiling Roger Cohen ("The real threat to America," Globalist, Nov. 26) makes some good points, including that we Americans, in trying to stop terrorists at our airports, have forsaken "judgment and discernment for a process run amok" and that we should "focus on the very small proportion of travelers who might present a threat".

"There's a phrase which has struck me very much: that you can actually ruin a good cause by pushing it at the wrong moment and not allowing the process of discernment and consent to go on, and that's part of my view".

I was called to be the full-time Minister of Music the following year, joined the congregation soon thereafter, and subsequently began the process of discernment and preparation for ordination.

Her initial calling was followed by a lengthy and not unusual process of discernment that featured "lots of questions, lots of growing up" before she professed final vows at 29. Farrell had studied English and theology in college, and had worked at Iowa parishes and Catholic schools in her 20s.