Quotes about Influence
I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.
— Richard Paul Evans
What the masses don't realize is that they're looking for a shepherd. Those who don't think they can be influenced or call themselves 'independent thinkers' are usually the biggest conformists of all—and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.
— Richard Paul Evans
All great men are delusional. How else could they be crazy enough to think they could change the world?
— Richard Paul Evans
That's what hate does — it remakes us in its image.
— Richard Paul Evans
college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.
— Richard Paul Evans
Do we have dreams, or do dreams have us?
— Richard Paul Evans
Proud men are the devil's pipes, and flatterers the musicians to blow these pipes.
— Richard Sibbes
A little known preacher named Mordecai Ham led to Christ a young boy whose name was Billy Graham. Billy Graham brought thousands upon thousands to Christ. Mordecai Ham had witnessed to many people. He may not have had big results, but one of those he won to Christ was exceptional. He was Ham's Song of Songs. I would encourage you to write many songs. One of them will be your Song of Songs.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Kirgizskaia Pravda of 17 January 1966 quoted an underground Christian leaflet to mothers: 'Let us join our efforts and prayers to dedicate to God the lives of our children from the time they are in the cradle! Let us save our children from the influence of the world.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Our habits control our lives. We shape our habits; then our habits shape us.
— Rick Warren
We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
— Rob Bell
Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement of God that is continuing forward in the culture around them . . . without their participation.
— Rob Bell