Quotes about Influence

God's words protect me from evil words spoken against me, and His words are louder to me than anyone else's.

Occasionally we see "shooting stars" in ministry—people who come out of seemingly nowhere and practically overnight are known worldwide, usually because they happened to get in with a certain group of people who had an ability to open doors for them. Rarely do their ministries last. They often get into trouble financially or morally because character is built during the hard times of waiting, but they didn't go through that character-building time.

We don't wait for things to happen to us; we happen to things.

I encourage you to begin pondering the truth that every word you speak holds some kind of power and to start praying and asking God to help you speak words filled with life and hope.

It is easy to get into the flow of the world and just float along in the worldly boat with everybody else. One thing is for sure—no one will be lonely on the broad way. There will always be lots of company because many people are going that way. The

Words can poison, words can heal. Words start and fight wars, but words make peace. Words lead men to the pinnacles of good And words can plunge men to the depths of evil. —Marguerite Schumann

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." I

We convince by our presence.

The outcome is to delegitimize and deconstruct the kings in effective ways in order to show that while they occupy the forms of power, they lack the substance of power.

Intercession, that is, intrusion into the courts of power on behalf of another, is central to the church's action in prayer.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

A cunning politician often lurks under the clerical robe; things spiritual and things temporal are strangely jumbled together, like drugs on an apothecary's shelf; and instead of a peaceful sermon, the simple seeker after righteousness has often a political pamphlet thrust down his throat, labeled with a pious text from Scripture.