Quotes about Influence

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

Wesleyanism was at its most influential when it was a people movement that was reproducing like mad.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

Wherever you encounter domination, you can be sure that it is satanic. That is not how God rules people.

The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

The desire we so often hear expressed today for "episcopal figures," "priestly men," "authoritative personalities" springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive.