Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.
I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.
Of all the questions about the future of leadership that we can raise for ourselves, we can be certain in our answer to only one: 'Who will lead us?' The answer, of course, is that we will be lead by those we have taught, and they will lead us as we have shown them they should.
My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.
I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.
When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.
Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.
I can’t believe Sadie’s going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must’ve really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind.
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.
I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.
My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
I'm able to impact kids' lives, I'm able to give back and I will impact so many kids' lives because I feel like that moment taught me that no matter where you are in life, no matter what you may want in life you keep going.
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.