Quotes about Impact

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

As followers of Jesus, we must not duck the enormity of a simple but shattering fact: with relatively few exceptions, such as some branches of Buddhism, almost all the most militantly secularist societies in history have been the product of Christian societies. The church is a leading spawning ground for atheists.

René Dubois, "Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente"

The Christian faith contributed to the rise of the modern world, but the Christian faith has been undermined by the modern world it helped to create. The Christian faith thus becomes its own gravedigger.

Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.

The key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

Jesus did not stand as a prophet and utter judgements; wherever He went the unerring directness of His presence located men.