Quotes About Impact

he had died as late as the New Year of 1939, he would, as Paul Addison says, 'perhaps be remembered today as the most illustrious and interesting failure in twentieth-century British politics'. Certainly until his apotheosis he was more often seen as an 'interesting failure' than as the subject for a study in greatness.

I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental level does not think Christianity actually works. And just one Christian of this type turns off dozens from trying out Christianity for themselves.

Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.

No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves.

When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate

Wouldn't things look much better for the human race if we no longer had history, at least no political history? The human being then would act more in accordance with the energies he possesses at any given time; for as things stand today, the example that now and then makes one person better makes a thousand others worse.

Aquello tuvo el efecto que por lo general tienen los buenos libros. Hizo más tontos a los tontos, más listos a los listos y los miles restantes quedaron ilesos.

El único defecto de los escritores realmente buenos es que casi siempre ocasionan que haya muchos malos o regulares.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

There was a purpose for a person being in your life at a certain time, even if it does not last.

How much human life can we absorb?" answers one of Facebook's founders,

It is absolutely necessary to be effective in the digital space, though this effort alone will not spell outreach success.

Consequently, if the church is going to leave a permanent mark on the community through a growing body of changed lives, it must constantly expand its leadership capacity, which entails both an increased number of leaders and an enhanced quality of leaders. Also

Although they are good people and have been called to ministry, most senior pastors do not have an understanding of God's vision for the ministries they are trying to lead—and, consequently, most churches have little impact in their community or in the lives of their congregants.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.… Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful…that's what matters to me.

When a man dies a world perishes--the world which he bore in his head. The more intelligent the head, the more clear, significant, and comprehensive was its world, the more terrible its destruction.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...