Quotes about Teaching

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology - His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good - you can leave His ethical teaching intact.

I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures? was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

All those Zen Masters throwing young kids in the mud because they can't answer their silly word questions That's because they want them to discover that mud is better than words, boy.

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

It is better to preach five words of God's Word than five million words of man's wisdom.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Listen, God can't bless what you won't do. You haven't been taught correctly. Prosperity doesn't just come from giving an offering. It's good to be a giver. But you must also be a thinker, a planner, and a worker.