Quotes About Engagement

It is always a personal negotiation, as

invite Jesus into each new situation or interaction.

As you engage with others, ask Jesus to bless them. You can consciously will the peace, joy, and confidence that you are experiencing to pass from you, like "living waters," to those with whom you are interacting.

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

Robbed of its reference to a transcendent spiritual being or substance that nonetheless personally engages with humanity while holding them responsible to its specific directives on how to live, this "love" ("God") has no recourse but to become whatever the current ideology says it is. Currently that means not treating people as different, while liberating them and enabling them to do what they want.

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.

Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living.

God's sovereignty is not an invitation to passivity. Instead, it is a call to wise and risky creativity.

To enter the realm of play, we must give ourselves to something or someone and turn away from all else. It is both a pledge and a betrayal.

never disperse your focus unless absolutely necessary. Face one adversary at a time.

A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.

Real world signore. You're in it tonight

Como siempre dice el señor Kirsch, uno de los objetivos del arte consiste en fomentar el diálogo.

One of the objectives of art is to promote dialogue.

These kinds of programs require a commitment from the company, which must invest time and energy into the community.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Your business is not to 'get somewhere' — it is to be here.

Never struggle with anyone or anything. When you're pushed, pull; when you're pulled, push.

We all know that life has ups and downs; you've experienced both. And though you can't always control what happens outside you, you can choose how you will respond. You can treat life as a dance rather than a wrestling match. You can become an active participant rather than a victim of circumstance.

He was a thinker, but also a man of action.

Emotions, no matter how painful, are not the problem. The problem is dropping out of school or work, putting your family or duties or life on hold until such time as you can work out your emotional issues. Would you rather feel depressed while sitting alone in your room trying to figure it all out or feel depressed while getting your house cleaned or your project completed? (You may still feel depressed, but you have a cleaner house.)

The continuation of her life was more than another day of breathing, but was the gift of another day of engagement with her beloved across the spectrum of all things.

When you meet a swordsman/ meet him with a sword Do not offer a poem to anyone but a poet]

Brother turned the page and read aloud again without once glancing down at the text.