Quotes about Impact

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.

Daniel Kolenda is an outstanding preacher with a message of salvation. He knows how to throw the net out, and he knows how to pull it back in. Many people are coming to salvation as a result of it.

I've been picked up by Big Cass and thrown down the ramp onto metal. Have you ever seen that before in this business? No, no, that's a mighty big fall from the top of the ramp, straight down to the bottom onto concrete. He picked me up over his head and thrown me 14 feet to the ground.

One way of judging the quality of theologies," he explains, "is to see what sort of devotion they produce."32

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.