Inspirational Quotes by Israel Wayne
“Obedience to God is what motivates me to teach my own children at home. It doesn’t make any difference to me what the public school is doing (whether good or bad), because they are not the plumb line. God’s Word is the standard.”
“Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.”
“A Christian education is not merely tacking a Jesus bumper sticker onto a secular methodology; it is, instead, understanding that everything we study is a reflection of the marvelous Creator who made all that is (John 1:3).”
“Gratefulness turns our attention from us, and our rights or irritations, to the call of God on our lives to raise our children.”
“By keeping in mind that we are homeschooling out of obedience, not preference, our family has avoided becoming discouraged when things become difficult.”
“It’s not enough to merely teach academics to children at home. Parents need to teach their children to view the world from an objectively true, biblical perspective. They need to teach their children, by example, how to truly love God.”
“This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. . . . And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God, in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord.1”
“It is a serious mistake to assume, first, of all, that there is any neutral subject which can be taught in the same way by both Christian Schools and humanistic schools. To believe so is to deny God’s total sovereignty over all things.”
“My mother’s philosophy was, “Teach your children how to read, how to reason, and how to research, and they will know how to succeed in life.”
“It seems that popular culture and media expect teens to exist as sponges to be filled with the expensive content (no matter how useless) of whatever music or programming they wish to propagate.”
“Technology has an addictive nature. It is very easy to become hooked on it, almost like a narcotic. Entertainment is often used for the same reasons that most people use drugs or any addictive substance: to pursue pleasure and to relieve pain.”
“Many people entertain themselves because they want to feel good and enjoy themselves or because they have a deep emotional void that they are trying to fill. They want to abandon themselves in a “virtual reality” and forget about the harshness of the life they are trapped in. People who are entertained for these reasons are liable to escape not only from reality, but from reason as well. It is when we are in a passive consumerist mindset that we are most prone to ingesting harmful ideas and worldviews imbedded in the media we consume.”
“Patience is an active choice to walk, not in a demanding, controlling, and angry manner toward those around us but, instead, with enduring love and encouragement.”
“I greatly fear the high schools are nothing but great gates of hell, unless they diligently study the Holy Scriptures and teach them to the young people. —Martin Luther”
“A secular humanist’s approach to history seeks to eliminate any positive reference to Christianity. Our goal is to tell both the good and the bad, the lovely and the hideous, all in a way that reflects the sovereign working of God in the midst of a fallen and broken humankind.”
“Ralph Waldo Emerson wisely noted: “You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.”4”
“In many ways, your child’s sense of worth is determined by what the most important person in his life thinks of him. When you place children into school, their peers often become the most important people in their lives.”
“Can God teach us as much, and prepare us for life just as much, through singing at the local nursing home or cleaning a house for a sick friend as He can through our English grammar books?”
“Personally, I don’t think there is a more vicious pack of carnivorous beasts on the planet than a group of junior-high students. There are many adults who still carry around the wounds and scars of their adolescence. Many young people during this transformational age are scared and uncertain about themselves and their place in the world. They feel vulnerable and don’t want to show their fears, so they look for weakness in others and lunge at any opportunity to exploit it. They feel that if they can expose a flaw or shortcoming in someone else, the pack, like a bunch of rabid sharks, will attack the wounded companion and leave them alone.”
“We live in a world that is dying from truth deprivation. We are to be the light of the world. We may not like public speaking, or learning to defend our faith, but we can’t put our lamps under a basket. There is too much at stake. We have to come out of our comfort zones and learn to communicate the unchanging truth of God’s Word to our decadent culture.”
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Israel has been a regular columnist for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, Home School Digest, Home School Enrichment and Brush Arbor Quarterly magazines. He is also the site editor for ChristianWorldview.net.
Since 1995, Israel has traveled the nation speaking on family, homeschooling, revival, discipleship, and cultural issues.
He is frequent guest on national radio and television programs. Israel's family began home educating in 1978 and has been featured in national and international publications including TIME Magazine, WORLD Magazine, Answers, Revive, HSLDA Court Report, The Arizona Republic, The New American and the Wall Street Journal. Israel has been featured as the keynote speaker at various conferences, with over 5,000 in attendance.
Israel and his wife Brook were joined in marriage without dating and share their testimony of God's faithfulness on an audiobook titled, "What God Has Joined Together." Israel and Brook, both homeschool graduates themselves, are homeschooling parents of ten children.
Israel desires to see God's people learn to think and live Biblically.
Aiming for both the head and the heart, Israel's goal is to challenge audiences to take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ. In his words, "God's Word applies to all areas of life. There is not one facet of our existence which does not fall under the direct claim of Lordship by Jesus Christ. This includes how we spend our money, what entertainment we consume, how we educate our children, how we use our time, etc. All of life must be understood from within a Biblical worldview."