Quotes About Engagement

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality

Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical because it is the lay members of the church who have the greatest contact with those who are outside of the normal structures of church life. In such a situation the task of clergy is not so much to engage in mission themselves, as to support the laity in their mission.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Though hand-to-hand combat has become rare, much modern warfare continues to involve physical strain such as those who have not engaged in it can scarcely imagine.

You don't read for understanding, you read for excitement. Understanding is a product of excitement.

In a healthy relationship, an engaged woman is devoted to her fiancé. She's enthralled with him. She constantly thinks about him, and wants to please him. She focuses on getting ready for their wedding and their future together. And she doesn't consider dating other guys! True Womanhood means having this same type of bridelike devotion to Christ, our Betrothed.

She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.

Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only de-motivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.