Top 1200 Christian Teaching Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

Teaching is not a job. It's a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life.

y feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.

Many people celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday for the most part than a Christian holiday. Obviously, many, many people celebrate it as a Christian holiday. But then there's even more people or there's additional people who celebrate it as a secular holiday as well.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

They call themselves Sephardic Jews, but that's not the important thing. The important thing is that some come from the Muslim world and some come from the Christian world. I would call them the Muslim Jews and the Christian Jews. It sounds absurd but you know what I mean.

Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.

Educarers demonstrate love by showing and teaching respect.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

Teaching is not telling and learning is not having been told.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

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

You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.

I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to do. You'll be given books and told chapters to assign the children. Veteran teachers will show you the correct way to fill out forms and have your classes line up.And here's some more good news. If you do all of these things badly, they let you keep doing it. You can go home at three o'clock every day. You get about three months off a year. Teaching is a great gig.However, if you care about what you're doing, it's one of the toughest jobs around.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being a Christian is more than making sound professions of faith. It should reveal itself in practical and visible ways. Indeed it is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard.

Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.

I think my biggest role as a parent is teaching empathy.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.