Quotes about Influence

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.

I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It's enough. Because it's important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks.

People either weigh you down or give you wings.