Quotes about Teaching

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The same is true spiritually. Until kids get into the driver's seat, they won't know how to get anywhere. What do I mean? You can pray for them their entire lives, but if you never let them pray, they're just along for the ride. They won't know how to get anywhere in prayer.

The motive for discipling others begins in the love of God and nothing less. He has loved us in Christ, and so we love him. And we do this in part by loving those he has placed around us.

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel. Whether it leads to such distortions or results from them, serious departures from the Bible's teaching about the church normally signify other, more central misunderstandings about the Christian faith.3

Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.

There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from the earliest age the difference between right and wrong. But we must all do our part.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.