Quotes About Influence

The television, iPod, and Internet have trespassed upon the innocence of America's children, while preoccupied mothers and dispassionate fathers stare aghast wondering what went wrong. They don't stop to think of their own contributions to the persuasions influencing their children. After all, where do kids as young as elementary age get money to rent rock videos and the latest rap DVDs?

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand it stiffens the backs of others.

If [Christian leaders] do not teach Christian principles to all followers of Christ, we are not equipping them with God's truth that will overcome worldly influence.

Christians] are called to distinguish themselves as Christ followers, not community organizers.

By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class—the teenager!

I would not change places with the wealthiest and most influential person in the world. I would rather be a child of the King, a joint-heir with Christ, a member of the Royal Family of heaven!

Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider the variety of lives that you influence in one day. Somewhere within your circle of contacts someone is being hurt. Are you aware of it?

Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.

Christians should be a foreign influence, a minority group in a pagan world.

God will never lead contrary to His word—so get acquainted with the Word of God, the Bible. Pray. He leads through the illumination of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Use whatever you have and be faithful. We are called to serve Christ in our sphere of influence.

It doesn't take great wealth or social influence to be faithful, but it does take obedience and endurance.

Satan rejoices when we are inconsistent, because he knows that an inconsistent Christian is an ineffective Christian—or worse.

Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present—we have just given it a new name: pop culture.

Salt and light speak of the influence Christians can exercise for good in society.

We are going through a sexual tempest, a bombardment provided by unprecedented exploitation of cheap sex by moviemakers, theater owners, publishers, and producers of pornography. [There is more] openness of talk about sex, acceptance of public nudity . . . homosexuality. Sex revolution, no! But sex pollution? Yes!!

Sex-centered magazines litter our newsstands . . . each edition trying to escape new laws from the bottom of the sewers. We put lids on sewer holes. Ought we not to do something about the pornography which is spewing out a polluted river of filth which can destroy us faster than any chemical pollution we seem so worried about?7

Some may contend that the way for the Church to make the world a better place is to become like it. But whenever the Church does this, it ends up compromising its spiritual authority and losing its influence. Instead of changing the world, the world changes it.

Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its members to experiment with drugs, to engage in murderous gang fights, to steal autos, and to violate the seventh commandment.

It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.

Our magazine shelves are filled with crime and sex pulp-magazines that are being read and devoured by millions of young people . . . Scores are seeing each week the trash that Hollywood produces. Truly our children are "movie mad.

The mind is the devil's favorite avenue of attack.

The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Marriage is not a reform school . . .Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.