Quotes About Engagement

Don't be so poor to the point that you can't afford to pay attention.

For the actor, everything seems real; whether it is in acting or by carrying out his daily tasks.

My mind and heart are on the political side of the coin.

Spirituality does not encourage idleness, but you must be more practical than those who are not spiritual.

The citizen must enter into a relationship with his government. It is not just the task of a politician to engage with the government, rather it is the duty of every citizen.

The Creator cannot keep filling the vessel that is not interested, nor responding to the first blessing that He sent.

The soldiers fight the physical battle while the priests engage in the spiritual one. The former gives us the freedom to reside in the world and the latter seeks salvation or personal gain.

The state of boredom must be avoided, because it kills more than war.

We are only carried away by the skills of public speaking, but none of us cares about the skill of listening. Thus, learning has become a burden to many of us.

We are quick to judge and generalise all the peoples by claiming that "I hate politics" or "I hate all the politicians".

As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment." ? Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Poten

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.

If today's, and tomorrow's, church is to engage in this kind of mission, seeking both to implement the achievement of Jesus and his resurrection and thereby to anticipate the final renewal of all things, it must itself be renewed, resourced, and reshaped for this mission.

the church doesn't exist in order to provide a place where people can pursue their private spiritual agendas and develop their own spiritual potential. Nor does it exist in order to provide a safe haven in which people can hide from the wicked world and ensure that they themselves arrive safely at an otherworldly destination.

From the beginning no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my culture, so I must adapt the gospel to fit within it', just as no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my surrounding culture, so I must oppose it tooth and nail'. Christians are neither chameleons, changing colour to suit their surroundings, nor rhinoceroses, ready to charge at anything in sight.

The Christian churches in general have always been subject to the temptation to use the Bible to annotate the story we want to tell for ourselves, rather than allow the Bible to tell its own story and invite us to join in.

In Britain, more people now vote on "reality TV" shows (voting, for instance, to eject a contestant from a "Big Brother" house) than vote in elections.

When it comes to the whole Bible, I believe we should not only be reading right through the Bible individually at least once a year – for clergy I'd say twice a year at least, and perhaps the gospels four times a year, and if this means reworking your personal schedules then fine, do it – but that we should make it possible for our congregations to try creative experiments for how to experience the whole Bible.

Mission, in its widest as well as its more focused senses, is what the church is there for.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

The more you talk, the less you'll have to say. The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first." "Excuse me if entertaining you isn't at the top of my agenda.