Quotes about Learning

There are no shortcuts in growing up. The path to maturity is long and arduous. Hurry is no virtue. There is no secret formula squirreled away that will make it easier or quicker. But stories help.

Our bodies are the means of providing our souls access to God in his revelation: eat this book. A friend reports to me that one of the early rabbis selected a different part of our bodies to make the same point; he insisted that the primary body part for taking in the word of God is not the ears but the feet. You learn God, he said, not through your ears but through your feet: follow the Rabbi.

For we're newcomers at this, with a lot to learn, and not too long to learn it.

Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.

God-the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

As players, you've got to keep improving, keep learning, keep playing well to get your place in the team.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life Book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.'"-