Quotes about Influence

The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church's language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.