Quotes About Impact

The money spent by one campus ministry to cover the costs of their Central American mission trip to repaint an orphanage would have been sufficient to hire two local painters and two new full-time teachers and purchase new uniforms for every student in the school.

personal involvement offers the best way to determine if our charitable investments are being put to good use.

Because, as compassionate people, we have been evaluating our charity by the rewards we receive through service, rather than the benefits received by the served.

More plausible suspects in our mystery are the things that students collectively bring with them to school, ranging from(on the positive side of the ledger) academic encouragement at home and private funding for "extras" to (on the negative side) crime, drugs, and disorder. Whom you go to school with matters a lot.

Neighborhood affluence and poverty have been shown repeatedly to influence many aspects of child and youth development, even after taking into account the characteristics of kids and their immediate families.

As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that.

Dickens gave his readers history on a human scale.

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

while an arrest of the Cowboy might bring the families of his victims justice, it would never bring them closure. Tracy

My death would be noted with nothing more than a headstone bearing the dates of my birth and my death to let the world know I had been here.

It takes a lifetime to build a life. It only takes a second to ruin it. Do something great with your life.

Her continued devotion in the face of all that had happened amazed me, but at this point I had concluded that I no longer shared her faith in a God who controlled the universe like a puppet master pulling and tugging strings and making us all dance. Our lives, I believed, were more like billiard balls on a pool table, ricocheting randomly with the impact of the cue ball.

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone. Really it is a question of which generation we are living for.

Balthasar says anything beautiful first arrests you—you're stopped in your tracks by it. Then, Balthasar says, the beautiful elects you. You've been chosen. Not everyone who hears Dylan becomes a fan, but I got elected. Finally, he says, the beautiful always sends you. You're sent on a mission.

And let us remember, too, that one does not have to have the prestige of the world to be greatly used in the Kingdom of God.

One living sermon is worth a hundred explanations.

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone.

His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but with men whom the multitudes would follow.

One cannot transform a world except as individuals in the world are transformed, and individuals cannot be changed except as they are molded in the hands of the Master.

A few people so dedicated in time will shake the world for God. Victory is never won by the multitudes.

Studies have indicated that the tone of voice may be more important than any other element in our response.

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it.

A]s important as moral and ethical issues are here, you don't need to rely on altruism to make the case for tackling poverty. It is in everyone's self-interest to reduce the societal consequences of deprivation. Poverty can foster crime and health care problems and in various other ways increase social costs and affect the lives of people who aren't poor.