Quotes about Learning

What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ from a life that is one with his resurrected reality day by day, learning obedience through inward transformation.

But the final step in becoming a disciple is decision. We become a life student of Jesus by deciding.

A great deal of what goes into "training them [us] to do everything I said" consists simply in bringing people to believe with their whole being the information they already have as a result of their initial confidence in Jesus—even if that initial confidence was only the confidence of desperation.

Anyone who is not a continual student of Jesus, and who nevertheless reads the great promises of the Bible as if they were for him or her, is like someone trying to cash a check on another person's account. At best, it succeeds only sporadically.

Our relationship with Jesus, which he argued ultimately allows us to establish a relationship with the kingdom of God. This relationship is one of discipleship in which we learn to live our lives as Jesus would through progressively embodying and manifesting a Christlike character, which is attained through establishing a discipling relationship to Jesus.

The governing assumption today, among professing Christians, is that we can be "Christians" forever and never become disciples.

An understanding of ordinary logic is no longer a required part of university degree programs, as was almost universally the case sixty years ago. Now, as a result, our world is full of uneducated people with higher degrees.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

There is no education like adversity.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Without failure there is no achievement.

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the einsteinconditions in which they can learn."