Quotes about Influence

And had it not been for our prayer and word, Germany would doubtless be in a different condition; and if she had been without the word which we teach and without our prayers, conditions in Germany would be in a most wretched plight.

No flesh, not even that of the true believer, is so completely under the influence of the Spirit that it will not bite or devour, or at least neglect, the commandment of love.

For the will is of no more power, and does no more with the Word, if the Spirit to move within be wanting; nor is it of less power, nor does it do less without the Word, if the Spirit be present, seeing that, all depends upon the power and operation of the Holy Spirit.

For the Spirit blows where He wills (John 3:8), not where we will.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness.

We all mold one another's dreams. We all hold each other's fragile hopes in our hands. We all touch others' hearts.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say so, because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself, and can never know.