Quotes about Influence

The reason God now calls kingdom people to remain separate from the ways of the kingdom-of-the-world is not to isolate them from their culture but to empower them to authentically serve their culture and ultimately win it over to allegiance to Jesus Christ. The reason we are not to be of the world is so we may be for the world.

History teaches that the best way to destroy the Church is to give it political power.

Every shortcoming, every sin, every struggle in the believer's life in one way or another can be traced to the influence of the flesh on our way of seeing and experiencing ourselves in our world—our experienced self-identity.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

A secular worldview hostile to biblical values has overrun our culture and permeated our government.

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.