Quotes about Impact

While some say a total shutdown of religions and personal freedoms could never occur in the United States, just remember, the Russian Tzars never realized the impact of the Communist revolution until they were removed. The German people were deceived into thinking Hitler would be a positive leader. In our nation, oppressive and freedom-killing legislation would be the method used to chain targeted groups to the pillar of silence and irrelevance.

Prayer can detonate mission.

More than anything, studying the Bible with Jews dislodged my parochial thinking about God, and it's had a lasting impact. Over time, I came to appreciate firsthand the richness and depth of that tradition. I also felt some shame for never really being exposed to it before,

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.

After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.

Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.