Quotes about Impact

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

Make your mark in the world with divine ink: love.

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?