Quotes About Learning

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

Devotion to God is studying him in every aspect; serving God is teaching what you know of Him to others.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.