Quotes about Influence

We should take more seriously our responsibility to pray for the leaders of our government that they will make wise decisions.

We do know God has instructed us to pray for leaders. Our duty, then, is to pray for wise decisions, but to trust when foolish and harmful decisions are made.

The beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.

John Owen said, "When [indwelling sin] is least felt, it is in fact most powerful."[2]

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.

People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for your to conform completely and never differ from some accepted surface standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boreing way there was.

If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

This government has had much money. Much gold. They will give nothing to their friends. You are a friend. All right. You will do it for nothing and should not be rewarded. But to people representing an important firm or a country which is not friendly but must be influenced—to such people they give much. It is very interesting when you follow it closely.