Quotes about Influence

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

Your friends are a reflection of you.

Kind words are short and easy to speak; but their echoes are truly endless

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

We may assume that we are in control of our responses to the world, but that's far from the case. If two people can see the same thing and have opposite reactions, their responses are controlling them, not the other way around.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thing The Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey.

But now at last the sacred influence Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire As from her outmost works a broken foe With tumult less and with less hostile din

Least total darkness should by Night regaine   Her old possession, and extinguish life   In Nature and all things, which these soft fires   Not only enlighten, but with kindly heate   Of various influence foment and warme,   Temper or nourish, or in part shed down   Thir stellar vertue on all kinds that grow   On Earth, made hereby apter to receive   Perfection from the Suns more potent Ray.