Quotes About Involvement

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it…. It is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things;… to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

When I find a person who thinks he is too good to take part in politics, I find one who is not quite good enough to deserve the blessings of a free government.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

While democracy has advanced, the part we ordinary citizens have played in the making and sustaining of the places and communities we live in has diminished. Never has so much been decided for so many by so few.

Americans pride themselves on being a democratic society, but if you ask the average American "When was the last time you were part of a group of more than five people who made a collective decision on a more or less equal basis?" most will just scratch their heads.

Empathy's not standing over a hole looking down and saying you understand. Empathy is having been in that hole yourself.

as the taint of getting involved with anything CIA. You never got more than half the story from them, and half of that was a lie.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

all too often contributes

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

Creation is a process that is still happening and we're in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

God has a part,and we have a part. God will not do our part and we can't do His part

Too many are willing to sit at God's table, but not work in his field.

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

When God has access to our heart, mind, and soul through years of fellowship and worship, He allows us to see more of His activity and to be more involved in His miraculous work.

God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.