Quotes About Impact

I have but one career, and its name is Ike," Mrs. Eisenhower once announced.

Faith is to prayer what the feather is to the arrow: without it prayer will not hit the mark.

This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all you do for your children. In every step you take for them – in every plan, scheme, and arrangement that concerns them – do not leave out that mighty question, "How will this affect their souls?

believe there is far more harm done by unholy and inconsistent Christians than we are aware of. Such people are among Satan's best allies. They pull down by their lives what pastors build with their sermons. They cause the chariot wheels of the gospel to drive heavily. They supply the children of this world with a never-ending excuse for remaining as they are.

el trauma que el niño sufre no es la agresión exterior, sino la huella psíquica que queda de la agresión; lo importante no es la naturaleza del impacto, sino la señal que deja, impresa sobre la superficie del yo".

When you climb the tower of a cathedral it becomes shorter, as a result of your added weight, by a very, very tiny amount, but it really does become shorter.

it is quite possible to break a bow by 'shooting' it without an arrow.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which.

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can't be denied. It's beautiful and messy, cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there's no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is irrevocably changed.

It was so long in the past that it should not have mattered, but it did. It did. Once he had realized that these words and words like them were the truth, once they had broken through his defensive barrier of denial, then they became a part of him, burning their way into his soul.

If our lives and ministries are expressions of what we actually believe, and if what we believe is off center and yet so pervasive that it is seldom even brought to conscious discussion, much less debated, then this explains why our impact on the world is so paltry compared to our numbers. I cannot overemphasize the fact that this modern understanding of Christianity is neither biblical nor consistent with the bulk of church history.

Influence is one thing; determination is another.

It's just how human beings are built. Two thousand years later, why do we know the name of Judas and not the soldier who nailed Christ to the cross? In

Bess and I had a talk. January 1919. Everything flowed from that talk, that moment. Everything. Look back on your life and see if you can pinpoint the moment when everything changed. If you can't? That means you haven't had your momemt yet, and you better hold on to your ass, it's coming.

La gente no entiende que se necesitan muchos hombres para crear a un hombre bueno.

They do not put erasers on guns.

History, lead-footed and relentless, weighed down the text.

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

It's just common sense," Mari objected. "Help people realize that what they do matters, that their efforts count and that everyone needs to work together, and they'll work and fight better." Patila shook her head. "Such sense is far from common.

I learned how big a difference one person can make, both in the lives of those closest to them, and to many others.

The answer? There is no answer. Only choices which can have many outcomes, some expected, and some unforeseen. Perhaps that is the only wisdom there really is, young Mage: that our choices matter. As your choices matter, perhaps more than those of anyone else at this time.

But people can hurt other people or they can help other people, and I don't want to be someone who hurts.