Quotes about Impact

At the height of his effectiveness, John Wesley was asked the secret of his impact for Christ around the world and reportedly answered, "When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do—merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.

Example is more powerful than precept.

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

It is only when the people of God as a whole are activated in a movement that real world transformation takes place.

Christianity is concerned with the unfolding of the Kingdom of God in this world, not the longevity of organizations.

Neil Cole wryly notes, "If you can't reproduce disciples, you can't reproduce leaders. If you can't reproduce leaders, you can't reproduce churches. If you can't reproduce churches, you can't reproduce movements."

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

Everyone is very aware that, not only do we have a race problem, but it's so pervasive that it affects national and global politics on a scale that I don't think a lot of people imagined.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.