Daily Inspiration Quote by Corrie Ten Boom

Discernment, in Corrie Ten Boom's hands, isn’t a spiritual superpower for spotting everyone else’s mess; it’s a summons to get your hands dirty in their behalf. The line flips a common religious temptation: treating moral perception as a license for critique. Ten Boom tightens the screw by pairing two similar-sounding postures - discernment and faultfinding - and insisting they point in opposite directions. One moves you toward another person with responsibility; the other backs you away with superiority.

The intent is corrective, aimed at believers who confuse being "wise" with being harsh. Subtext: if you think God is showing you someone’s weakness, it may not be to arm you with a hot take. It may be to draft you into the quiet work of intercession - prayer, advocacy, practical help, and the kind of solidarity that costs time and comfort. "God's call" frames discernment not as personal achievement but as an assignment. That shift quietly undercuts ego, which is exactly what faultfinding feeds on.

Context matters because Ten Boom's moral authority wasn’t theoretical. As a Dutch Christian who helped shelter Jews during the Holocaust and survived a concentration camp, she knew what real evil looks like - and still refused the cheap catharsis of condemnation. Against that backdrop, the quote reads less like pious etiquette and more like a survival-tested ethic: when you see darkness, your first job isn’t to narrate it. It’s to contest it, starting on your knees and moving outward into action.