Quotes about Influence
The Scriptures tell us rightly that input determines output — that our programming determines production.
— Kent Hughes
Never think of the Holy Spirit as an "it," an "attitude," or an "influence." He is a person and has very definite ways. Call them peculiar, eccentric, or unique if you like; He has His ways. You may or may not like His ways. But get over it! He is the only Holy Spirit you have! He won't adjust to you; you must adjust to Him.
— RT Kendall
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. —JOHN 3:8, ESV
— RT Kendall
Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
— Tony Campolo
Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.
— George H. W. Bush
I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.
— Hillary Clinton
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
— Virginia Woolf
Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
— Dorothy Day
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
— Oprah Winfrey
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
— Pablo Picasso
I used to tell my friends, 'Art Blakey is way more gangster than Eazy-E!' I ended up getting my friends into jazz, and all of a sudden there was this little group of kids in the middle of South Central that were all into hard-bop.
— Kamasi Washington