Quotes About Lessons

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

The lesson taught by the war was clear: to be human is to be small, powerless, and subject to the forces of randomness.

15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight [nothing can be fixed]: and that which is wanting [lacking] cannot be numbered [counted]. Another interpretation of verse 15, above, might depict pessimism in dealing with people. It could be saying that people never learn their lessons, and that their foolishness seems to be infinite.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!

Sometimes, we want the best for our kids, and we push too hard. We keep aloof from them or we pressure them too much, we hide from them or we grab them with both arms. Either way we run the risk of pushing them out the door, of teaching them the wrong lessons, and of turning them into men we wouldn't want them to be.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.

The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

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.

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

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

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.