Quotes About Engagement

A dangerous woman delves deeply into the truth of who she is, grounds herself daily in the healing and empowering love of God, and radically engages with the needs of the world.

His mother had often talked about the way certain books called you when you were really engrossed in them and to put them down.

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

Now I'm not saying the act of going to church fixes everything. Just as simply looking at a restaurant menu won't give you nourishment. We've got to engage with what's offered if it's going to do us any good. But putting my heart in a place to receive truth certainly got me going in a different direction.

Remember: what consumes us, controls us. As

Proximity and activity don't always equal connectivity.

I was so caught up in the rush of superficial things in my world that I missed hearing the cries for help in someone else's world.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don't know. Likewise, I don't know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I'm reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape…. If you read for escape you will never try to change your life, or anyone else's. It's a politically barren act, if nothing else. The overuse of imaginative fiction enables people to avoid the knowledge that they are actually alive.

the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirming a certain set of beliefs or adopting a particular behavior pattern. These are a secondary result of the primary reality of a life engaged in an ever deepening union with God in love.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Peace is not a spectator sport

the voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.

A speechmaker's gravest sin is to leave the listener indifferent. I was determined not to be dull.

In recent years, we have all become familiar with the counterterrorism mantra: "See something, say something." In the pages that follow, I propose an added exhortation—do something. What that something might be is for each of us to decide in accordance with our opportunities and talents, but it begins by pushing back harder against the debilitating cancer of cynicism.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

Until they enter elementary school most youngsters are motivated by the challenge itself, not by stars or grades or rewards. This is called mastery motivation and is the form of learning most likely to lead to both engagement and persistence, and ultimately to expertise.

It is hardly surprising that I have devoted a great deal of time and energy in my professional career to encouraging parents to be present with the child right in front of them rather than being overly focused on the future.

It was a trick of his, to set a sentence out like a plate on a table and see what you would put on it. But he surprised me by continuing.