Quotes about Impact

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.

Choosing Luther and Calvin instead of the spiritual reformers who were their contemporaries, Protestant Europe got the kind of theology it liked. But it also got, along with other unanticipated by-products, the Thirty Years' War, capitalism and the first rudiments of modern Germany. "If

People, he was beginning to understand, are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of their culture. It brings them to flower; but it also nips them in the bud or plants a canker at the heart of the blossom.

When the individual feels, the community reels, Lenina pronounced. Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good, unless it be applied.

Many of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Our lives begin to end the day we stop caring for whit is important.