Quotes about Mentoring
What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience—even if you risk angering or hurting that person—you are offering the most valuable gift of all.
— John Wooden
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
— George Eliot
Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others.
— Mark Dever
What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?
— Martin Luther
one creates a discipling culture, modeled on the life and ministry of Jesus, by accident. No one accidentally creates disciples. Discipleship is an intentional pursuit.
— Mike Breen
Huddles work because they expose people to the learning of a group rather than only one-on-one mentoring. What a member gets to see is not only how the leader is discipling them, but also how the leader is discipling other people as well. Because each person is different, different skills and practices are needed to disciple various personality types.
— Mike Breen
IF THERE'S ANYTHING ANY OF US SHOULD BECOME GREAT AT, IT'S MAKING DISCIPLES WHO CAN MAKE DISCIPLES.
— Mike Breen
The greatest act of leadership is mentoring. No matter how much you may learn, achieve, accumulate, or accomplish, if it all dies with you, then you are a generational failure.
— Myles Munroe
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
— Proverbs 5:13
“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
— Acts 8:31
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
— 1 Timothy 5:2
If you do not influence them, someone else will. If you are not shaping their values, others will do it for you. The issue is not, Will my child be influenced? The issue is, Who will be that influence? Most parents I know prefer to wield the greatest influence in the lives of their children. They wisely want to make the major investment in their children's lives so that the values of their offspring largely reflect their own. That's the most basic rationale for investing
— David Jeremiah