Quotes about Lesson

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Over the course of my life, I have learned some important lessons about God's power. For one, you don't need divine power if you are not obeying what God said. It doesn't take a miracle to live in disobedience!

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

What is outside the scope of my mind has absolutely no concern with my mind. Learn this lesson and thou standest erect.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

This was the lesson Paul learnt, to rejoice in His own poverty and emptiness, that the power of Christ might rest upon Him. Could Paul have done anything, Jesus would not have had the honour of doing all. This way of being saved entirely by grace, from first to last, is contrary to our natural wills

Mind and Love. These two words correspond to one of the deepest lessons Edwards ever taught. Mind (or understanding) and love (or affection) correspond to two great acts of the Godhead, and two ways that humans in his image reflect back to God his own glory. Here's

Works of romance, frivolous, exciting tales, are, in hardly less degree, a curse to the reader. The author may profess to teach a moral lesson; throughout his work he may interweave religious sentiments, but often these serve only to veil the folly and worthlessness beneath.

The first thing to be learned by all who would become workers together with God is the lesson of self-distrust; then they are prepared to have imparted to them the character of Christ. This is not to be gained through education in the most scientific schools. It is the fruit of wisdom that is obtained from the divine Teacher alone.