Quotes About Engagement

What is God up to in our neighborhoods and communities? How do we join with what God is doing in these places? Church questions are a subset of these far more important questions.

Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great Books, don't make them your steady intellectual diet, any more than you would eat at the most elegant of restaurants every day. It would be too much. Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

answered in a low, breathless voice.

every minute which passes at the beginning of a meeting before you announce your real intentions will generate either suspicion or caution.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Whenever you receive or generate a lead, don't simply do backflips because someone is interested in your services.

Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means, and Bakke was an engagement whose antecedents were at Gettysburg and Shiloh.

Involvement doesn't necessarily mean willing involvement

Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.

Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.

If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

An invaluable part of intellectual (and personal) growth comes from having the freedom to express your own ideas, and to engage with the ideas of others.

But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.

I play shows sometimes, and if everything's connecting, I start blabbing to the audience about anything. Between songs, talking about things in my personal life, or whatever. But there are other situations where I feel a little closed-off. It's really kind of a day-to-day thing.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.