John Bevere Quotes

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

Few things are as essential as education.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

You have to learn and keep learning.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

I grow old learning something new every day.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

Education made us what we are.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

You do grow, and you learn from your experiences, and that's obviously what happened to me.

Every person learns with time and experience.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Through persistent, effective, and diligent work, a person can accumulate knowledge in the form of facts, data, information, and experience. Intelligence, however, can only be gained through obedience. Thus, knowledge is a prerequisite to and foundation for true spiritual intelligence.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.