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Quotes About Teaching

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.
~ Maud Lindsay
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
~ Ram Dass
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.
~ Rumi
Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not create one religion, but many religions.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
~ Augustine of Hippo
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
~ Martin Luther
Devotion to God is studying him in every aspect; serving God is teaching what you know of Him to others.
~ Reshad Feild
To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
~ Paracelsus
It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
All things are lessons that God would have us learn.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
~ Peter Shaffer, Amadeus
I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.
~ Alain de Botton
"His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling.
~ Brian Bird
Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.
~ Charles Spurgeon
God's Word instructs us, teaches us, guides us, encourages us, convicts us, and helps conform us to the image of Christ.
~ Craig Groeschel
Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.
~ Stockwell Day
Everything thing we're doing is coming out of the living Word of God.
~ Louie Giglio
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
~ Martin Luther
Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.
~ Martin Luther