Quotes about Teaching

teach them how to read, write, spell, and do arithmetic, all while staying physically fit and being kind to others.

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

Jesus wasn't so much handing out information as reshaping our imaginations.

The reality that was inside of Jesus got outside of him so the disciples could see it.

For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.

Our Lord gave us the picture of the child as a model for Christian faith (Mk 10:14-16) not because of the child's helplessness but because of the child's willingness to be led, to be taught, to be blessed. God does not reduce us to a set of Pavlovian reflexes so that we mindlessly worship and pray and obey on signal; he establishes us with a dignity in which we are free to receive his word, his gifts, his grace.

I am GOD, your God, who teaches you how to live right and well. I show you what to do, where to go.

St. Paul had to deal with some of these people in the church at Thessalonica. They were saying that since God had done everything in Christ there was nothing more for them to do.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

God-the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Teaching resurrects dead words so they live again.

Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject.