Quotes About Impact

I laughed. I cried. Sometimes, hours or days after I'd last seen Trillium, some tiny, jewel-colored piece of story would come winging toward me out of the blue, and I would laugh or cry again.

When we look back on the decades of our life we see that the seemingly insignificant things we do over and over actually weave the pattern of our lives.

Roland Bainton, author of one of the best lives of Luther, once said that in Germany, Luther did all by himself what in England it took Bible-translator William Tyndale, liturgist Thomas Cranmer, preacher Hugh Latimer, hymn-writer Isaac Watts, and several generations of theologians to do.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

In sum, the ability of what had once been a socially responsible, moderately intellectual, Arminian evangelical Methodism and a socially responsible, reasonably comprehensive, Calvinistic Presbyterianism to make any kind of a sharp Christian impact on Christian thought, society, politics, or spirituality was fatally compromised by what Barry Mack has very precisely labelled 'the tragic failure of Church Union.

When Christianity turns into a noun, it becomes a turnoff. Christianity was always intended to be a verb. And, more specifically, an action verb. The title of the book of Acts says it all, doesn't it? It's not the book of Ideas or Theories or Words. It's the book of Acts. If the twenty-first-century church said less and did more, maybe we would have the same kind of impact the first-century church did.

I live by the maxim, love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That how you change someone's life forever.

Your greatest legacy isn't your dream. Your greatest legacy is the next generation of dreamers that your dream inspires—the dreams within a dream.

You may be the only Bible some people ever read. So the question is: Are you a good translation?

You can't make a difference without making waves, and some people in the boat won't like it. So be it. Rock the boat anyway.

Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

If the blessing stops with you, it'll eventually stop altogether! Instead of being a conduit for blessing and maintaining forward momentum, we settle for sideways energy.

Few things leave as lasting an impression as hearing someone genuinely intercede for you.

Never underestimate the ripple effect of one act of obedience. It will never be all for nothing.

Live your life in a way that is worth telling stories about.

Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness

The survey consisted of one question: If you had your life to live all over again, what would you do differently? Three replies emerged as a consensus. One, risk more. Two, reflect more. Three, do more things that live on after you die.

It's not enough to exercise spiritual gifts; one must exercise them with a measure of emotional intelligence, or they can actually do more emotional harm than good.

If you want to impact someone's life, love them when they least expect it and least deserve it ... You might think, "But they don't deserve it." That's the point, isn't it?

your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?

Jesus didn't die on the cross to keep us safe. Jesus died to make us dangerous.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

You don't need wealth or position or power to make a difference. You just need to do the best you can with what you have where you are. And if you are faithful in Babylon, God will bless you in Jerusalem.

The tongue has the power of life and death.13 It's not some abracadabra incantation, but sometimes you have to say it like you believe it. Jesus literally spoke to the wind and the waves, right?