You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.
We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.
The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
The 1st Amendment was established to ensure, in addition to free exercise, that the state did not have the power to establish any particular religious teaching.
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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.
Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.
I don't ever preach to people.
When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
We teach that God's love for His children is infinite.
There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her.
Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.
We have never found, and I think we never shall find, an adequate substitute for the situation in which two wholesome young men meet with a family, reason with them, teach them, testify to them, and pray with them. We shall always need missionaries.
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system.
I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
One of the great compliments paid the Savior was that he taught as one having authority. The missionary who knows scripture and can quote it speaks with the voice of authority...May I suggest that in our family night gatherings we make it a project to memorize one scripture a week pertinent to this work. At the conclusion of a year our children will have on their lips a fund of scripture which will remain with them throughout their lives.
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
Bishops and priests should live according to the canons and should teach others to do likewise
