Quotes About Participation

Vote like your rights depend on it — they do.

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote — a very different thing.

BALLOT BOX. The altar of democracy.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The right to vote is the fundamental citizenship right that protects all other rights.

Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.

Voting is the language of democracy.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter. It all matters.

Make no mistake, here in our time, it's more important than ever that we show up to vote, not just this year, but every year and in every election. Every voice must be heard and every vote must be counted.

Your vote is your voice.

If you don't vote, you lose the right to complain.

You can either vote by voting or vote by not voting. If you don't vote, someone else's vote counts more.

Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.

College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

I would go one step further and say that the willingness to challenge professional economists - and other experts - should be the foundation of democracy. When you think about it, if all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having a democracy at all? Unless we want our societies to be run by a body of self-elected experts, we all have to learn economics and challenge professional economists

What we need is evangelicals and Catholics who discern the primary demand of our time: a celebration of our heavenly participation in the eternal Word of God. Only a heavenly minded Christian faith will do us any earthly good.

Augustine's concept of time was sacramental: time participates in the eternity of God's life, and it is this participation that is able to gather past, present, and future together into one.11

The ecclesial body was the sacramental reality to which the Eucharist pointed and in which it participated.

The central paschal event - Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension - is something Christians participate in: God "made us alive with Christ," Paul insists (Eph. 2:5). He "raised us up with Christ" (Eph. 2:6; Col. 3:1). The result of this sharing in Christ is that believers participate in heavenly realities. We are seated with Christ "in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6; Eph. 1:3).

Precisely because heaven is already present on earth, the moral lives of Christians on earth are to reflect their heavenly participation.

The patristic and medieval mind recognized that the heavenly reality of the Word of God constituted an eternal mystery; the observable appearances of creation pointed to and participated in this mystery.

One of the most important differences between Judaism and Christianity is that we were a people before we had a religion.........throughout it all, it is the participation in the community that defines us as Jews; the creeds and rituals are secondary.

the opposite of holding on is participating in something larger than ourselves.