Quotes about Influence

Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.

I want to know that I have affected people for eternity. I believe I am. I believe once someone knows Christ as their personal savior, I've affected eternity. I matter 10 billion years from now.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

Make sure that your children don't follow you if you go to sin.

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.

The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church's language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.