Quotes about Mentoring

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Children are like wet cement. What is modeled for them imprints their character. —Max

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

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.

You might have heard the old saying "Give someone a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach someone to fish, and you feed him for the rest of his life." The same holds true for life itself. If you give someone an answer, a rule, a principle, you help him solve one problem. But if you teach him to walk with God, well then, you've helped him solve the rest of his life. You've helped him tap into an inexhaustible

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.

Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others.

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.

There is no success without a successor.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

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.