Quotes About Engagement

church is not a theater where some people perform and the rest become spectators or critics. Church is not the place where we perform.

PLAYER : It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action, if that's your taste and times being what they are.

Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch & interpret every sound in the universe.

It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.

Long ago she had given up trying to be deft or profound or anything in the company of people she was not interested in, who didn't thrill her.

Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time.

Some girls were there too, arguing, it seemed, with one of them.

there is something the press can do in language that a society cannot do. You've done it before. Move us closer to participatory democracy; help us distinguish between a pseudo-experience and a living one, between an encounter and an engagement, between theme and life. Help us all try to figure out what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

Come Prepared or Not at All

If I had to answer the question, What is the most important ability for the actor? . . . the answer would emphatically be listening. Lest there be some misunderstanding, let me define what I mean by listening. I am talking about listening with all the senses.

Church is not for spectators.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

many men have come to view the church as a task to be done rather than a community to be in.

Even though a man's involvement with the church is so critical, it seems that in most churches, men are not taking an active role in any men's ministry or in transferring a kingdom worldview. What

But republics and democracies exist only by virtue of the engagement of their citizens in the management of public affairs. If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants.

People who live in private spaces contribute actively to the dilution and corrosion of the public space. In other words, they exacerbate the circumstances which drove them to retreat in the first place.

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Focus equals feeling.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life." [ Woman's Day magazine, March 12, 2002]

The second he was gone the women began chattering like chickens at the sight of a fox.

And how am I supposed to do that?" "You could start by speaking up a little. No one listens to us anymore when we complain. They

Watch, listen, and then act, they told us. This is the way to live.

Will you marry me, Quinn O'Connor?

When we constantly fill up all our "empty" time with stimulation in the form of electronic devices, games, and distractions, our brains become disengaged and the thinking process is effectively halted. We never get to hear our own inner voice-we don't develop a relationship with ourselves and our minds. We don't get to know who we are because we're not listening.