Quotes About Influence

My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.

Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.

A church that likes power likes prayer.

I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

God shapes the world by prayer.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

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

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.