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Our Duty is to Faithfully Declare

"God is not concerned about how many people you stand before as He is about what you stand for...no matter how many are listening, your job is to declare faithfully the timely truth of the Word of God.? Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)

I Hear; I See; I Do

An ancient Chinese proverb: I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.

Cicero on Instructing Youth

"What greater or better gift can we offer our republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" Cicero. (Mark 16:13-16)

Dogged Attentiveness to Familiar Truths

Bible Scholar Derek Kidner, in his commentary on Proverbs, notes that Solomon repeats over and over his admonition to listen to wisdom. Then, he notes, ??a major part of godliness lies in dogged attentiveness to familiar truths.? (p. 68)

Taught as if You Taught Them Not

Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. --Alexander Pope

Get People Laughing

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. --Herbert Gardner

Limitations of TV

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. --Rod Serling

If You Teach, Learn

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. --Richard Henry Dann

A Doer Learns

The doer alone learneth. --Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche on Simplification

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. --Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) German philosopher and poet

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