Quotes about Impact
If ministry success is our god, we are likely to take the shortest path to greater and greater "victories," but preparing and developing people is never on the shortest path.
— Eric Geiger
We have observed two common yet flawed views that unfortunately impact a church's likelihood to make disciples that are transformed: equating information with discipleship and viewing discipleship merely as behavioral modification. Discipleship is much more than information and much deeper than behavioral modification.
— Eric Geiger
Leadership is much like nuclear energy. It is able to warm a whole city or bring it to waste in death and destruction; it's all in how it is used.
— Eric Geiger
How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence."
— Eric Metaxas
It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."
— Eric Metaxas
The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history.
— Eric Metaxas
By the time Whitefield died in 1770, an inconceivable 80 percent of the population of the American colonies had heard him preach at least once.
— Eric Metaxas
What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.
— Eric Metaxas
Once this idea was loosed upon the world, the world changed.
— Eric Metaxas
Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.
— Eric Metaxas
Although I know full well and hear every day that many people think little of me and say that I only write little pamphlets and sermons in German for the uneducated laity, I do not let that stop me. Would to God that in my lifetime I had, to my fullest ability, helped one layman to be better!
— Eric Metaxas
When Wilberforce's mother and grandfather sent him to live with his aunt and uncle, they hadn't the slightest idea that they were sending the boy into a glowing hotbed of Methodism.
— Eric Metaxas