Quotes About Influence

A poll by researcher George Barna revealed that about 25 percent of the adults in the United States would go to church if a friend would just invite them. Barna

But learned personality traits aren't often based on present reality but on a past from which there is no escape.

We were never anything more than something she could manipulate

Words didn't have any impact on Albert Haight. He saw them as obstacles to dodge or bounce from his head like a soccer ball. To the gut. To where it hurts. "Don't do this," she said

I was the asteroid that hovered just outside his orbit.

the reason God now calls kingdom people to remain separate from the ways of the kingdom-of-the-world is not to isolate them from their culture but to empower them to authentically serve their culture and ultimately win it over to allegiance to Jesus Christ. The reason we are not to be of the world is so we may be for the world.

The words and acts of the founding fathers, especially the first few presidents, shaped the form and tone of the civil religion as it has been maintained ever since. Though much is selectively derived from Christianity, this religion is clearly not itself Christianity. ROBERT BELLAH1

History teaches that the best way to destroy the Church is to give it political power.

Every shortcoming, every sin, every struggle in the believer's life in one way or another can be traced to the influence of the flesh on our way of seeing and experiencing ourselves in our world—our experienced self-identity. The

We've got two parties." "No you do not. You have only the party of the banks, of the money men, and they divide it into two pieces for your voting.

Powerful people have no regrets.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!

Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.

Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn't your own. Sometimes you're chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man's, grown in a different heart, and it takes longer than a fading bruise to forget.

Some of the worst things were caused by people who tried to change things.

We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action.

If reputations were votes, we'd be presidents of somewhere.