Quotes About Involvement

contemporary wording of Jesus's comparison of God's kind of love, agape, and what normally passes for love might be "What's so great if you love those who love you? Terrorists do that! If that's all your 'love' amounts to, God certainly is not involved. Or suppose you are friendly to 'our kind of people.' So is the Mafia!" (Matthew 5:46–47).

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

We don't consume the merits of Christ or the services of the church. We are participants, not spectators. Accordingly

God wants us to participate in the governance of his kingdom.

As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she's not in the room any more, she's inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.

It is in the dark struggles with God that we are surprised by His response to our anger and fear. What we receive from Him during our difficult battle is not what we expect. We assume He wants order, conformity—obedient children. Instead, we find that He wants our passionate involvement and utter awe in the mystery of His glorious character.

Real world signore. You're in it tonight

feels the same about life - that involvement with it is like the Catholic Communion only the World is the Host, and it must be chewed.

Dan, you don't mean to tell me that you didn't get in touch with the bookstores in Detroit and tell them about it." "No," I said. "I'm kind of shy. And I didn't think it was my job." "Dan, you shouldn't hide your light under a bushel

My father never mentioned Him-it was as if God was one of Rose's relatives he'd rather not get involved with.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.

Don't be a witness. Be an activist.

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

I don't want to deny myself the pleasure of bodily involvement in my work, for that pleasure seems to me to be the sign of an indispensable integrity.