#earning

We must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if we can just get the Word of God into people's heads, then the Spirit of God will apply it to their hearts. That assumption is aweful, not because the Spirit never does what the assumption supposes, but because it excused pastors and leaders from the responsibility to tangle with people's lives. Many remain safely hidden behind pulpits, hopelessly out of touch with the struggles of their congregations, proclaiming the Scriptures with a pompous accuracy that touches no one. Pulpits should provide bridges, not barriers, to life-changing relationships. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#knowledge #learning #pastors #pulpits #relationships

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process? ↗

— Stacey Kade

#learning #life #life

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. ↗

— Martina Horner

#life #life

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#learning #life #life-lessons #time #life

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#enlightenment #learning #reading #writing #creativity

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#lifelong-learning #intellect

Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#knowledge #learning #education

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. ↗

— Martha Graham

#dancing #education #experience #learning #performance

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect. ↗

— James Lafferty

#advice #anything #aspiring #comes #craft

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier. ↗

— Brian Lamb

#easier #getting #goal #grew #i