Quotes about Influence

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

Wesleyanism was at its most influential when it was a people movement that was reproducing like mad.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

Wherever you encounter domination, you can be sure that it is satanic. That is not how God rules people.

The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.