Quotes About Impact

Between the influence of the graduates of the small university at Wittenberg and the graduates of the small Academy of Geneva, the world was changed. R.C. Sproul

History has a clear and distinct voice, but it does not force itself upon us uninvited. History

If we were to press the pause button, repent, and move prayer to a place of priority in our families, schedules, and church lives, everything would be ignited and impacted by it.

La amargura hace más daño en la vida donde se acumula que en aquel sobre quien se derrama».

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

The revolution of 1893 and the annexation that followed undermined a culture and ended the life of a nation. Compared to what such operations have brought to other countries, though, this one ended well.

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

have just been reading in the press the agonizing statement that there are only 4,000,000,000,000 cords of pulp wood left in the world, and that in another fifty years it will be all gone.

for every thousand people hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the roots.

By doing rather than merely studying, we create a culture. Newcomers and the young feed on that culture. They watch. They do. They, too, are changed. Our culture expands. You Americans create a system of thought. The most you ask is that people contemplate new ideas. You might ask them to give or to sometimes attend meetings, but no contagious culture is created. Nothing is offered to newcomers and the young but thoughts. So they think. They don't do." We are changed. We craft

Marshall, gray-haired, storm-browed, is nevertheless a child sitting at a child's desk. He folds his papers impatiently, stuffs them into a leather satchel and stands. "We are judged," he says as he moves toward the door, "not by how we understand our words but by how our words are understood by others." He opens the door, then slams it behind him, but its sound is obliterated by my booming laughter.

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.

Thus, the world is changed—not with a sword, but with a word.

Alas, words were but empty things, devoid of power and all too easily broken, discarded, and forgotten.

A sentence in a book may be the thing that changes your life.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.

When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!