Quotes about Teaching

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

At our best, we're all teachers

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.