Quotes about Impact

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." I

We convince by our presence.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the stories we live by.

One hidden act of kindness is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of Christians so preoccupied with cultivating their prayer lives that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the barrio.

The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

At the height of his effectiveness, John Wesley was asked the secret of his impact for Christ around the world and reportedly answered, "When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do—merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.