Quotes about Influence

that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.

In the second half of life, we do not have strong and final opinions about everything, every event, or most people, as much as we allow things and people to delight us, sadden us, and truly influence us.

a person must pass the lessons learned on to others—or there has been no real gift at all.

You will have many more Aarons building you golden calves than Moseses leading you on any exodus.

It is the things that you cannot do anything about and the things that you cannot do anything with that do something with you.

Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature

All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency on them.

That is the rub of any conversion experience: We only realize how much we needed it when we are on the other side! That is why we need the tenacity of faith and hope to carry us across to most transformational experiences. When we can let others actually influence us and change us, our heart space is open.