Quotes about Influence

Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.

The power of proclamation is the one weapon the church needs to major in these days.

The main vehicle of both blessings and curses is words. Such words may be spoken or written or merely uttered inwardly.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual decision making and ownership of a plan. Often, a leader's plan of action must wait for collegial support—ever patient—until the team is ready.

The power of inspiring others to service and sacrifice will mark God's leader.

Spiritual leadership requires Spirit-filled people. Other qualities are important; to be Spirit-filled is indispensable.

Not every Christian is called to major leadership in the church, but every Christian is a leader, for we all influence others. All of us should strive to improve our leadership skills.

The Spirit of Old Princeton is dead.

According to modern liberalism, in other words, Jesus was the Founder of Christianity because He was the first Christian, and Christianity consists in maintenance of the religious life which Jesus instituted.

We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion...What is to-day a matter of academic speculation, begins to-morrow to move armies and pull down empires.

True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve