Quotes about Learning

Many people think of Jesus as our Savior, as the one who will get us into heaven. So the question often is "Have I accepted Jesus as my Savior?" But we never ask the question "Have I accepted Jesus as my teacher?

Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose.

Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all…. One reason why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

His Heart, Our Heart As disciples (literally students) of Jesus, our goal is to learn to be like him. We begin by trusting him to receive us as we are. But our confidence in him leads us toward the same kind of faith he had, a faith that made it possible for him to act as he did.

A day shared with Jesus is a day of continuous conversation. We will learn to hear his voice.

Disciplines are activities that are in our power and that enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.

We want to ask questions and not just make assertions.

"Knowledge" in biblical language never refers to what we today call "head knowledge," but always to experiential involvement with what is known—to actual engagement with it.

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.