Quotes About Impact

It is a waste of your precious time on earth to do everything you do—personally and professionally—and not leave something behind that makes the world a better place.

If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.

Even a bad father can leave an inheritance. Only a good father can leave a heritage.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next." —C. S. Lewis

The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. "Life and death is in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21).

Create art. Not just an art, but thermo fucking nuclear art.

Our society is walking through a maze of cultural land mines and the heaviest price is exacted as we send our children on ahead.

Our lives are shaped by others literally from birth, and even the best of intentions can result in the most unexpected of hurts.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

Once you have gained a following of such magnitude; once you can do no wrong by virtue of the adulation you receive; once you are one of the richest people in the world and can buy the companies that sponsor you; once you have a magical impact on the minds of people… is it not a short step to playing god in the minds of your followers?

Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.

But there is more to it than that. My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known—not the famous, not saints, but

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

A book is a loaded gun.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

In the silence, our stage whisper might carry.

He was part of us and when he died all the actions stopped dead, and there was no one to do them just the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. i've never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands. He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million actions the night he passed on. 

The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.' 'That's sad,' said Montag, quietly, 'because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.