In God's kingdom, calling trumps credentials every time! God does not call the qualified. He qualifies the called. And the litmus test isn't experience or expertise. It's availability and teachability. If you are willing to go when God gives you a green light, He will take you to inaccessible places to do impossible things.

~ Mark Batterson

Mark Batterson Availability Calling Teachability

Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.

~ Douglas Copeland

Douglas Copeland Curiosity Humility Teachability

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

~ Plato

Plato Education Humility Teachability

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.

~ Scott Farris

Scott Farris Discipleship Humility Mentoring Teachability

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

~ William Zinsser

William Zinsser Humility Objectivity Openness Teachability

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

~ Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr Awareness Openness Teachability