Quotes about Teaching

The lessons I taught you, the tradition I have passed on, all that you heard me say or saw me do, put into practice; and the God of peace will be with you (Phil. 4:9, NEB).

We cannot behave "on the spot" as he did and taught if in the rest of our time we live as everybody else does.

A great deal of what goes into "training them [us] to do everything I said" consists simply in bringing people to believe with their whole being the information they already have as a result of their initial confidence in Jesus—even if that initial confidence was only the confidence of desperation.

So my first point is simply: life in Christ has to do with obedience to his teaching.

Dallas: Jesus was a man of truth. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, not of correct doctrine. I am just saying that we need to tell our young people, "Follow Jesus, and if you can find a better way than him, he would be the first to tell you to take it.

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the einsteinconditions in which they can learn."

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

Teaching as a purpose, as such, is difficult to prescribe or talk about because the thing it is proposing to make is usually something so vague as "understanding.

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

Character is always more caught than taught.