Quotes about Impact

If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.

Dr. Martin Luther King said, 'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.

Even a bad father can leave an inheritance. Only a good father can leave a heritage.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next." —C. S. Lewis

The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. "Life and death is in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21).

Perhaps you're afraid of becoming "so heavenly minded you're of no earthly good." Relax—you have nothing to worry about! On the contrary, many of us are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly or earthly good.

Our society is walking through a maze of cultural land mines and the heaviest price is exacted as we send our children on ahead.

Our lives are shaped by others literally from birth, and even the best of intentions can result in the most unexpected of hurts.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

The world is in great need. There is so much that needs to be done.

Once you have gained a following of such magnitude; once you can do no wrong by virtue of the adulation you receive; once you are one of the richest people in the world and can buy the companies that sponsor you; once you have a magical impact on the minds of people… is it not a short step to playing god in the minds of your followers?

Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.