Quotes About Lessons

all of us are living stories, and those stories teach other people to live stories.

Have you ever stopped to think in your own personal life why God permits certain people to cross your path? Do you wish that you had never met certain people? Are there people whom you would call your enemies? Someone may have caused you sorrow, but it is all for His purpose. God has permitted all that for a particular purpose. Learn to recognize the hand of God in your life.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

Cuando vengan los días oscuros, no nos resulte extraño. Más bien recordemos que las lecciones asimiladas en días oscuros nunca las hubiéramos aprendido en los días soleados.

When days of darkness come upon us, let us not consider it a perplexing thing. Rather, let us remember that lessons are learned on such days that would never have been learned in sunshine. Let us say to ourselves, "This also is for my profit, that I may be a partaker of God's holiness. It is sent in love. I am in God's best school. Correction is instruction. This is meant to make me grow.

Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no

He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

Everything the men taught me that summer fell under the loose catchall of confidence. They taught me the importance of confidence. That was all. But that was enough. That, I later realized, was everything.

Generals always fight the last war

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world.

War is the greatest of teachers, and not all of its lessons are bad. Their cost is just so terribly high.

Participating in work enables the children to learn important lessons early on, lessons that are necessary for life. They learn to do their fair share and to help others.

Whatever theory of interpretation people use powerfully affects how they understand Scripture. Common Sense philosophy and Turretin's theology allowed seemingly good, intelligent, devout people to ignore the basic principles and lessons of Scripture and to brutalize other human beings by enslaving them.

With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come, as well as happiness. Even the most blessed lives had both. She'd live them as they came.

But in her seventy and more years, she had learned that the risks taken for others gave the greatest rewards.

Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one's society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In an age that is often crisis-laden and chaotic, an understanding of our Western heritage and its lessons can be instrumental in helping us create new models for the future. For we are all creators of history, and the future of Western and indeed world civilization depends on us.

The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

One of the most significant lessons Jesus taught his disciples was to stop looking for God's life in the regimen of rituals and rules. He came not to refurbish religion, but to offer them a relationship.

What his time in Afghanistan was teaching him was that there needed to be better reasons, stronger threats to national security, before the United States deployed its sons and daughters. The abstract threat of terror was not enough,

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

The wisdom of goldilocks and three bears story is applicable to a lot.

1. Per educare occorre proporre adeguatamente il passato.