Quotes about Impact
A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.
— Frank Peretti
The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue.
— Frank Peretti
Winston Churchill wisely said, "First we shape our buildings. Thereafter, they shape us." Exegete the architecture of a typical church building and you'll quickly discover that it effectively teaches the church to be passive.
— Frank Viola
Consider this thought: Adam's entire existence was based upon what he ate. His diet determined his destiny. It also determined the entire course of human history.
— Frank Viola
All the traditional reasons put forth for "needing" a church building collapse under careful scrutiny. We so easily forget that the early Christians turned the world upside down without them (see Acts 17:6). They grew rapidly for three hundred years without the help (or hindrance) of church buildings.
— Frank Viola
It is what the unimportant do that really counts and determines the course of history. The greatest forces in the universe are never spectacular. Summer showers are more effective than hurricanes, but they get no publicity. The world would soon die but for the fidelity, loyalty and consecration of those whose names are unhonored and unsung.
— Frank Viola
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it's not that what the minister says is wrong. It's that it is just too small.
— Fred Craddock
Try to be a happy memory for your friends.
— Fred Smith
When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.
— Frederick Buechner
Words, like anything else used too often, soon depreciate in value, lose their edge, and cease to bite into our lives. When phrases, such as unconditional love, trip too easily off the tongue, the speaker's ego may experience a temporary rush of exhilaration using an in salvation slogan, but his heart remains unchanged.
— Brennan Manning
Where does my complete flowering as a human being connect with the needs of the world?
— Henri Nouwen