The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.
You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.
That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.
If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.
Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.
You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.