Quotes about Teaching

the church, like television, is always educating; the only question is, What is it teaching?

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.

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.