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.

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.

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.

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence."

It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."

The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history.

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.

What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.

Once this idea was loosed upon the world, the world changed.

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

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!

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.