Quotes About Christian Education

#1. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.

Hughes Oliphant Old

#2. Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.

Howard G. Hendricks

#3. Christian education begins where evangelism ends, helping believers grow in their faith.

Perry G. Downs

#4. The end of Christian education has been seen to be the dissemination and communication of Christian ideas rather than the formation of a peculiar people.

James K.A. Smith

#5. The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.

John Gresham Machen

#6. Neither parenting, Christian education, heritage, nor fine church involvement can alter anyone's essential sin nature. To lie, make self-centered choices, be destructive, or be deeply hurtful to oneself or others may be "out of character," but it is not outside of any human being's nature.

Rick Horne

#7. I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.

Catherine Deneuve

#8. If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on to its young.

C.S. Lewis

#9. 2. Christian education places its emphasis on "unity" in relationships between people.

James C. Dobson

#10. Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

Peter Marshall

#11. Having the right goal is essential for Christian education to be effective. According

Neil T. Anderson

#12. The key distinctive of a truly Christian education ... is the effective practice of worldview integration, that is, an approach to biblical integration that leads to a Christian worldview.

Martha MacCullough

#13. The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

Pope Benedict XVI

#14. Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

John Ruskin

#15. The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

T. S. Eliot

#16. Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

M. Stanton Evans

#17. Helping people to know God and to be obedient to him is perhaps the greatest gift we can bestow. Understood in this way, Christian education can be be one of the most compassionate ministries of the church.

Perry G. Downs

#18. The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#19. The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#20. We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

Douglas Wilson

#21. He that is not with his God is against Him ... Hence, as there cannot be in any soul a non-Christian state which is not anti-Christian, it follows that any training which attempts to be non-Christian is therefore anti-Christian.

Robert Lewis Dabney

#22. Daring greatly, divine grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. You must desire it, to claim it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.

Christian Slater

#25. The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

David Barton

#26. Don't look at your circumstance. Be courageous!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis

Constance Savery

#28. The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. The goal of education by the grace of God is to create self-governing people who live under the Law of God for the glory of Christ.

Tim Yarbrough

#30. Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.

Joshua Romqn

#31. Some people have a heart to do evil and they don't care if you're Muslim or Christian.

Tucker Elliot

#32. The truest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. With great diligent, pursue your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. Make only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on!

Oladosu Feyikogbon

#35. The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

C.S. Lewis

#37. Oxford was in love with the idea of Christian perfection.

Philip Zaleski

#38. Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

Russell Kirk

#40. Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.

Christian De Duve

#41. I find joy in reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. The "right time' is now. Go onward and fulfill your dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. To exclude religious teaching altogether from education ... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#44. Use your time and your strength for your accomplishments.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children ... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Paul Kurtz

#46. Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.

Christian De Duve

#47. The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement ... We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America.

Pat Robertson

#48. At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.

Edmund Campion

#49. My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.

Christian De Duve

#50. God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him.

A.W. Tozer

#51. I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.

Mike Berenstain

#52. I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

Christian Slater

#53. Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Blaise Pascal

#54. Proverbs 16:3 'Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.' A great reminder when planning out the school year.

Tamara L. Chilver

#55. Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children.

Jason E. Royle

#56. You have the capacity to pursue your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#57. Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.

Basil Moreau

#58. The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy ... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.

Christian Boltanski

#59. May you have strength to complete studies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#60. Spiritual-self consist of a determined soul and indomitable spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#61. The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

Corrie Ten Boom

#62. There is a rise after every fall.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. You must live the life of your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#64. May the Lord grant you grace to read and understand the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#65. There is tremendous need in today's world to "be successful" when the world looks at you as a woman and a Christian. Prayers alone does not produce Success nor entirely a matter of background, intelligence or education but attraction of VIRTUE!

Ibiloye Abiodun Christian

#66. Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.

Billy Graham

#67. Divine mission.
Divine strength.
Divine accomplishment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#68. He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Isaac Newton

#69. In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#70. It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even - in some cases - enough food to escape starvation.

Ronald J. Sider

#71. If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#72. Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.

A.C. Grayling

#73. Self-education begins with the passion to read the Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. Reach out to your sacred-dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. Stand tall like a tower of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#76. We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are to be taught a lesson in Christianity by the English?

Edward Rutherfurd

#77. Every experience makes us wiser.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#78. To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

Hilda Phoebe Hudson

#79. God is the greatest Teacher.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. Every child ought to be educated.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#81. It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.

Samuel Blumenfeld

#82. Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God's special revelation.

Perry G. Downs

#83. The courage to try again is daring spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#84. When I think of the word "organic," I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.
That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like.

Tamara L. Chilver

#85. In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

David Christian

#86. With certainty, courage and commitment, the dream will be a reality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#87. In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment.

D. James Kennedy

#88. The Biblical educator must not only have a Christian understanding of the material, he must have a Biblical understanding of the student. If he does not, then the result will be a hybrid Christian methodology employed to achieve a humanistic goal.

Douglas Wilson

#89. My mother and grandmother ... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.

Christian Cota

#90. In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#91. Your actions now, define possibilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#92. Freedom is will-power to define my path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#93. Seen at Liberty University: I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.

Kevin Roose

#94. that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him. For such a man I have no message.

A.W. Tozer

#95. Let the children ... be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Benjamin Rush

#96. I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

Jack Bowman

#97. Organic education is natural, wholesome, and fundamental.

Tamara L. Chilver

#98. I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.

Katy Perry

#99. Each one of us is endowed with specific sacred-skill.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#100. Write a daily gratitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita