Quotes About Impact

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

Words aren't only bombs and bullets—no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt commends "the reading of the Bible" to my brother. The way they got these kids to die. Commends.

Noi lasciamo una macchia, lasciamo una traccia, lasciamo la nostra impronta.

the love thrust upon the Swede seemed actually to deprive him of feeling.

You have to enjoy power, have a certain ruthlessness, to accept the beauty and not mourn the fact that it overshadows everything else. As with any exaggerated trait that sets you apart and makes you exceptional—and enviable, and hateable—to accept your beauty, to accept its effect on others, to play with it, to make the best of it, you're well advised to develop a sense of humor.

By the time she was their age, she'd seen all the Kurosawas, all the Tarkovskys, all the Fellinis, all the Antonionis, all the Fassbinders, all the Wertmullers, all the Satyajit Rays, all the René Clairs, all the Wim Wenderses, all the Truffauts, the Godards, the Chabrols, the Resnaises, the Rohmers, the Renoirs, and all these kids have seen is Star Wars.

But it is Hitler to whom the entire world must be grateful tonight for striking at the Soviet Union.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy. Nor does it offer insurance against feelings of doubt and betrayal. If anything, being a Christian complicates the issue. If you believe in a world of pure chance, what difference does it make whether a bus from Yuba City or one from Salina crashes? But if you believe in a world ruled by a powerful God who loves you tenderly, then it makes an awful difference.

No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.

Stanley Hauerwas, named "America's best theologian" by Time magazine, summed up the problem: "I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

Whatever you may believe about it, the birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ.

Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth?

Stanley Hauerwas, named "America's best theologian" by Time magazine, summed up the problem: "I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world." When a poll of college students asked

Jesus, who said little about how believers should behave when we gather together and much about how we can affect the world around us.

When the church has occasion to set the rules for all society, it often veers toward the extremism

What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth?

God has entrusted flawed human beings with a message so powerful that it sometimes does its work in spite of us.

Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers

Seventy-five thousand people a day become Christians, two-thirds of whom live in Africa.

The message of this book has the power to reform the church, one relationship at a time.