Quotes about Influence

Men of the highest education in the arts and sciences have learned precious lessons from Christians in humble life who were designated by the world as unlearned. But these obscure disciples had obtained an education in the highest of all schools. They had sat at the feet of Him who spoke as "never man spake." [252]

The higher the position a man occupies, the greater the responsibility that he has to bear, the wider will be the influence that he exerts and the greater his need of dependence on God. Ever should he remember that with the call to work comes the call to walk circumspectly before his fellow men. He is to stand before God in the attitude of a learner. Position does not give holiness of character.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Christians are not particularly gifted at knowing how we sound to others, especially in parts of the world where our voices are the loudest and most numerous.

Our lives are inextricably bound up with the lives of other people. So much depends on things we can never control.

I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins

Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

All democracies turn into dictatorships—but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea

Whatever the verdict on my presidency, I'm comfortable with the fact that I won't be around to hear it. That's a decision point only history will reach.

Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad Company.