Quotes about Teaching

The Kingdom cannot be learned like other subjects, such as science, geography or history. The Kingdom is learned only through revelation by the Spirit. It cannot be explained, contained or controlled—thus it is unexplainable, uncontainable and uncontrollable. It is not taught as much as it is caught—and only through the Spirit can it be caught. It cannot be embraced, explained, applied, pursued or entered without the Spirit of God.

It is Christians who have been primarily responsible for disseminating knowledge of the Torah to so much of the world.

My kids have so much, and it's the only way I can teach them that there is a responsibility to their life that comes with being lucky. You give some of yourself to others.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

The Pharisees had just given Him a stubborn, silent answer to a question, so He gave them an equally silent rebuke.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

But if any one fact is clear, on the basis of this evidence, it is that the Christian movement at its inception was not just a way of life in the modern sense, but a way of life founded upon a message. It was based, not upon mere feeling, not upon a mere program of work, but upon an account of facts. In other words it was based upon doctrine.

The truth is that if Jesus be merely an example, He is not a worthy example; for He claimed to be far more.

Serving and suffering are paired in the teaching and life of our Lord. One does not come without the other. And what servant is greater than The Lord?

There are not a few people to whom I would far rather speak about their own sins, than tell them their children had done anything wrong.

Be very sure, if you would train children for heaven, they are hints that ought not to be lightly set aside.

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.