“The purpose of influence is to “speak up for those who have no influence.” It’s not about you.”

In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you’re honored by others.

If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom of Heaven is on earth. If Jesus is king in my heart, then the Kingdom of God is in me.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

Gods plan isn’t a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life’s purpose: Ask God.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

People are influenced most by those they trust, admire and believe care for them.

Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.

I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.