Quotes about Teaching

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

Prophets of Nature, we to them will speakA lasting inspiration, sanctifiedBy reason, blest by faith: what we have loved,Others will love, and we will teach them how;Instruct them how the mind of man becomesA thousand times more beautiful than the earthOn which he dwells.

A light to guide, a rod to check the erring, and reprove.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.