Christian Education Quotes

“Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children.”
― Jason E. Royle, Jesus vs. Santa: Christmas Misunderstood

“The mature fruit of mystagogy is an awareness that one's life is being progressively transformed by the holy mysteries being celebrated. 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

“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, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning

“One of the goals of classical education is to discern the appropriate manner by which the mistreated and oppressed can challenge their oppressors without destroying their civilization.”
― Gene Edward Veith Jr., Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America

“In itself this Christian education is partly the product of the retreat of biblical scholarship from the faith community to the academy. In removing themselves to the academy biblical scholars have ceased to engage with the people of the issues of the contemporary faith context. ~ Janet Lees (p. 84). In Reading Other-Wise”
― Gerald O. West, Reading Otherwise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with their Local Communities

“In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.”
― Douglas Wilson, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning

“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

“Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.”
― Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

“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, Teaching for Spiritual Growth

“Let us not forget that Jesus Christ is also a Great Chemist. He transforms water into wine, distinguishes various salt compounds, and utilizes electromagnetic spectrums to heal and restore. Faith and Science works hand-in-hand.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“Let us not forget that Jesus Christ is also a Great Chemist. He transforms water into wine, distinguishes various salt compounds, and utilizes the electromagnetic spectrum to heal and restore. Faith and Science work hand-in-hand.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“In learning, christian students are fishermen casting their nets into the sea of life, for just as skilled sailors are forged in tumultuous waters, so too are blessings often found amidst life's storms. We are all students.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“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, Teaching for Spiritual Growth

“Christian education begins where evangelism ends, helping believers grow in their faith.”
― Perry G. Downs, Teaching for Spiritual Growth

“There are many who occasionally attend church and who are trying experimentally to be Christians, yet are unable to identify well or define accurately the central truths of Christian teaching. The knowledge they have of the Christian tradition may have come chiefly through hymns. Their strong and sincere feelings are not matched with serious biblical or historical reflection on those feelings. Religious feelings are, indeed, crucial to the deeper learning of Christian truth, but they easily become superficial and narcissistic if the mind of Christ is not a mentor to natural religious impulse. The loss of center in Christian education is arguably due to a serious default of pastoral leadership; when the teaching elder does not teach, the effect is felt throughout the entire Christian congregation.”
― Thomas C. Oden, Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry

“To be free, one must have the critical-thinking skills that inoculate against the alluring rhetoric that pervades contemporary society, rhetoric that is constantly seeking to undermine freedom for the sake of varied narrow interests. It is an old story, and Daniel Scoggin, the CEO of Great Hearts, recognizes this reality when he reminds his constituency that "each generation must earn its freedom anew".”
― Gene Edward Veith Jr., Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America

“It turns out that, however you might wish otherwise, you eventually wind up wherever it was you were going. If you get on the plane to Chicago, and I would ask you to follow me closely here, you are going to land in Chicago. We are now arriving where a godless education must necessarily go. The public schools in America were not secular, they were godless. The public schools in America were not neutral, they were godless. The public schools in America were not even agnostic, they were godless.”
― Douglas Wilson, Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World

“A part of the answer to these questions is that Christians have no more moral duty to read and study Greek and Roman literature than ancient Israelites had a duty to study the myths of Baal and Asteroth. Nor should Christian homeschoolers think that they can have a good Christian education only if the "classics" are prominent in the curriculum. The goal of Christian education is to train a child to be faithful in serving God and His kingdom in a calling, and certainly this goal can be achieved by a student who never cracks the cover of a Homeric epic. page 18”
― Peter J. Leithart, Heroes of the City of Man: A Christian Guide to Select Ancient Literature

“I do see Christ everywhere and in everything, as the One in Whom all things, including Western literature, consist. Shakespeare's plays are among the "all things" that Paul says are created "for Christ" (col. 1:16-17). If there is offense in taking Paul quite literally and pressing his global affirmation into crannies of the academy that would rather not hear from an apostle, it is an offense for which I cannot apologize. Pressing Paul's point is a straightforward and unavoidable demand of discipleship. (page 28)”
― Peter J. Leithart, Heroes of the City of Man: A Christian Guide to Select Ancient Literature