Quotes about Learning

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

Why is learning about these Jewish festivals so important? It is in looking back at what God has done that we can see forward to His future plans for us. "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future'" (Jeremiah 29:11).

In a 1977 interview with Christianity Today, Billy Graham said, "One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less. People have pressured me into speaking to groups when I should have been studying and preparing.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

From him I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been.

Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.

For some reason we human beings seem to learn best how to love when we're a bit broken, when our plans fall apart, when our myths of our self-sufficiency and goodness and safety are shattered.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them