Pastoral Resources

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.