Quotes about Influence

It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

The death penalty did not flourish in America in spite of Christians but because of us. So

that few things have more transformative power than people and stories. People

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God. After all, what is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life—especially one's politics?

The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.