Quotes About Legacy

Roland Bainton, author of one of the best lives of Luther, once said that in Germany, Luther did all by himself what in England it took Bible-translator William Tyndale, liturgist Thomas Cranmer, preacher Hugh Latimer, hymn-writer Isaac Watts, and several generations of theologians to do.

Leo X (1513–21), was more pious than his predecessors but no less convinced that the measure of papal greatness was an increase in papal lands and a sponsorship of the arts. Leo,

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

The future is the history of tomorrow.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

Your greatest legacy isn't your dream. Your greatest legacy is the next generation of dreamers that your dream inspires—the dreams within a dream.

We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

If the blessing stops with you, it'll eventually stop altogether! Instead of being a conduit for blessing and maintaining forward momentum, we settle for sideways energy.

When your life is over, the world will ask you only one question: 'Did you do what you were supposed to do?'" That's not just a good question. That's the question... It cannot be answered with words. It must be answered with your life.

Live your life in a way that is worth telling stories about.

The survey consisted of one question: If you had your life to live all over again, what would you do differently? Three replies emerged as a consensus. One, risk more. Two, reflect more. Three, do more things that live on after you die.

In his brilliant book The Road to Character, David Brooks makes a distinction between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. Résumé virtues are the skills you need to make a living, and those are often the most celebrated virtues in our culture. But when it comes to making a life, eulogy virtues win the day. These are the virtues that get talked about at your funeral.

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory

Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Our prayers don't die when we do. God answers them forever.

As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants — from this time on and forever," says the LORD.

I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. Ad we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.

You don't become a praying parent by default. You do it by design, by desire, by discipline. Spiritual disciplines take sheer determination, but if you determine to circle your children in prayer, you will shape their destinies, just like Susanna Wesley shaped the destinies of her children. Your prayers will live on in their lives long after you die. Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

One of my pastor friends, and a local hero, is Mike Minter. Mike is the founding pastor of Reston Bible Church, where he has served for nearly four decades.

I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.

It's not my name that's at stake.