Teachings Quotes

We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right things―teaching good from bad, explaining choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons are learned through observation and experience. Perhaps we'd be better off training our youth to be highly observant.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Just like today, the Protestants and their teachings had to fight with the prevalent order of the day which taught that: Work is only for making profit. Make money with minimum effort. The culture of the day viewed work as a burden to be avoided. The secular world of the time taught that you should do no more than what was enough for good living.

~ Sunday Adelaja

All true teachings expand awareness, not limit it.

~ Shepherd Hoodwin

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?

~ Brandon Sanderson

The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Any teachings that fail to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of life, is absolutely antichrist.John 1:1-13.

~ Felix Wantang

Hostel is one phase in a man's life that teaches him what Indian mothers fail to teach their children despite the use of potential weapons like rolling pin,broom stick, wiper so on and henceforth. Who knows if you are luckier, you might just experience your bachelorhood as a paying guest.

~ Parul Wadhwa

Let’s downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals

~ Sunday Adelaja

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon, and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.

~ Masaharu Anesaki

Life is a learned skill, but instead of teaching it, our culture force-fills developing minds with long division and capital cities—until, at the end of the mandatory period of bondage that’s hyperbolically called school, we’re sent into the world knowing little about it. And so, left on our own to figure out the most important parts of life, we make mistakes for years until, by the time we’ve learned enough from our stumbling to be effective human beings, it’s time for us to die.

~ Neil Strauss

If the teachings of the Protestants in Europe gave birth to the Protestant ethics and the modern civilization, it becomes alarming that most of our charismatic teachings today mainly concentrate on individual aggrandizement

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to work and bring about productivity.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When we tell people that God will do this and that without teaching people how to do their best, we are doing a disservice to them.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn’t admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love with—the way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be.

~ Pat Conroy

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt.Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

~ Joseph Campbell

The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion.

~ Errol Anthony Smythe.

Churches are no more relevant because they haven’t balanced there teachings.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The balance message is that churches are to teach people the miracle workers themselves.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to discover their territory and cultivate their land.

~ Sunday Adelaja

See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.

~ A.p.j. Abdul Kalam

For is it not said That Girl Knows No Fear, and Dammit, Fran, She's Going To Get Herself Et, and This Is From Your Side Of The Family, Jonathan, No One In My Family Has Ever Hugged A Basilisk Before?

~ Seanan Mcguire

So you would kill Old Ireland?” Anna Livia said. “You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn’t be.

~ Andrew M. Greeley

The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so they tried to do their best and give the best quality to God by giving the best quality to man.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We call ourselves Protestants, but we have totally departed from the teachings of the early Protestants. Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Calvin would turn in their graves, if they hear the kind of teachings we are now feeding the people of God with.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.

~ Plato

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

~ Pirkei Avot