Quotes about Influence

One reason the broader world does not look to Christianity for guidance is that we Christians have not spoken with a credible voice.

Jesus did not mix his spirituality with politics.

Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers

The church works best as a force of resistance, a counterbalance to the consuming power of the state.

A church that lives by power dies by power.

Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.

You and I are the mechanisms God has put in place to keep today's corrupting systems of thought from taking root and then taking effect in the hearts of our children.

Through the wise, skillful words of this author, God was telling me that effective ministry could never be measured by the size of an audience, by the number of books I'd written, by the acclaim of the crowds, but only by the lives being changed as the Spirit of God rested upon me.

I cannot stop anyone from making wrong choices. I can only help them make the right ones." There was deep sadness in Ruwach's tone, rooted in love, as if he would have done anything to prevent Brianna from suffering the consequences of her choice.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we don't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining; they just shine. —D. L. MOODY (1837—1899)

Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.

It is Christians who have been primarily responsible for disseminating knowledge of the Torah to so much of the world.