Quotes about Influence

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

he can make every word he speaks draw blood

Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see.

Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.

The soul is the seat of the affections, and what a great part of our decisions and actions is influenced by these! There is nothing deliberately sinful about them, mind you. It is just that there is something in us which can go out in natural affection to another person, and which, ungoverned by the Spirit, can influence wrongly our whole course of action.

Let us not argue over our being labeled as either spiritual or carnal. If we are not governed by the Holy Spirit what profit will the mere designation of spiritual be to us? This is after all a matter of life, not of title.

If that summer taught me anything, it was this: girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

If you're having trouble making a distinction between the voices in your head, let me put it this way: there are two sources of supernatural power on this earth. Jesus and satan. If what you're hearing does not come from Jesus, then by definition, it does come from satan.

Girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it. [Murphy Shepherd]

Music reaches people at a level that is beneath their DNA. Dad was right. Again. Music exposes what and who we worship.

But good hymns? They live past the people who wrote them. Hymns never die.