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For ‘the great aim of education,’ said Herbert Spencer, ‘is not knowledge but action.’
Dale Carnegie • How To Win Friends and Influence People
the second distinct shape of Henry’s new mold of being pastor. If Edwards operated at the speed of learning and discipline, Henry downshifted completely, casting the pastor as no different—living at no different speed—from any other man or woman.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Teachers of virtue are not born; they are formed. They are not “produced” by a diploma or merely credentialed by a certificate; they are shaped by immersion in practices that bend their loves and longing toward Christ and his coming kingdom.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity grows greater, it grows less and less likely to do so. God is God, as the Moslems say; but a great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. That is the paradox; everything that is merely approaching to that point is merely
... See moreG K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
A. W. Tozer • Essential Tozer Collection
Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into your mind; he is after nothing less than your wants, your loves, your longings. His “teaching” doesn’t just touch the calm, cool, collected space of reflection and contemplation; he is a teacher who invades the heated
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Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812
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A man went looking for Rabbi Hillel and said to him, “I want to become a Jew. But only on the condition that you teach me the Torah, all of it, while I stand on one foot.” Hillel looked at this smart-aleck and said, “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow man. That is the entire Torah—all of it. The rest is commentary. Go and study.”
Anita Diamant • Choosing a Jewish Life, Revised and Updated: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
Since education is a formative project, aimed at the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, then the teacher is a steward of transcendence who needs not only to know the Good but also to teach from that conviction. The teacher of virtue will not apologize for seeking to apprentice students to the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. But she will also run
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