Quotes About Impact

You're too young." Most of history was built by young people. They just got credit when they were older.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.

How the word is spoken can dramatically impact the power of the spoken word.

Out of one's change of consciousness comes change in the world.

What is a relationship? The intersection of the stories of two people. The problem is that an awful lot of carnage takes place at this intersection.

It is easy to forget the impact our words have on every relationship. There has never been a good relationship without good communication. And there has never been a bad relationship that didn't get that way in part because of something that was said.

Sin affects us in six basic ways.

What sets the course of a person's life are the ways he responds to the little moments. The character developed in a thousand little moments is what you carry into the big, important moments.

Your everyday communication influences the shape, quality, and direction of your relationships.

Every day your words give your relationships their tone. Every day you tell people what you think of them, what you want from them, and what you would like to enjoy with them.

It is easy to forget the impact our words have on every relationship. There

It begins in the hearts of people and has ripple effects that spread to the farthest reaches of sin.

We are called to be people of great character so that, when we come in contact with the world, our character influences those around us.

Real change does not take place until it is visible in our lives and our relationships.

Words can be powerful or they can be cheap. What makes words powerful is the action that flows from them. Theology also can be powerful or cheap. What makes right thinking about God powerful is the life that emerges daily from that theology.

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.

Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean. The

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.

Remember that email is skywriting.

Will we in retrospect see the elections of 2016 much as Russians see the elections of 1990, or Czechs the elections of 1946, or Germans the elections of 1932? This,

Take responsibility for the face of the world.

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something.