Quotes about Learning

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as 'Christians' will become disciples — students, apprentices, practitioners — of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

For holy conversation to occur, we must at least be in touch with the reality that we could be wrong. Holy conversation needs an appropriate modesty that is the opposite of arrogance.

It's a very good historical book about history.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Some people need a targeted kind of learning. They need a different approach, like charter schools. There are virtual classrooms that some will do well in. The reality is, if there are no options, if there is just one particular standard, then someone is going to fall through the cracks, as we've seen.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Lord, I thank You for the treasure of the Bible. Please teach my heart to want to dive into its treasures every day.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.