Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

youthful minds. Your earnest desire for the present
and eternal good of the children under your care
should bring you often to your knees to seek
counsel of Him who is too wise to err, too good to
leave you in the helplessness of your own wisdom.
Bible instruction is to be made forcible by the
holy life of the teacher. God-fearing teachers will
practice every principle they seek to imprint on the
minds of the children. Such teachers do not see
their heavenly Father except by the eye of faith; but
they have learned of Him; they read His love in the
most trying dispensations. They do not judge their
Creator by dispensations; they are partakers of His
divine nature. They can trust Him who withheld
not His only-begotten Son, knowing that with Him
He will give all things for their spiritual and eternal
good.
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If the teacher has learned his lessons from Jesus
Christ, and has learned for the purpose of bringing
these lessons fully into his own life, he can teach
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