Quotes About Engagement

Christians should be on the front lines fighting to liberate society from its captivity to secular worldviews.

Stories and images can be powerful means for conveying ideas. Every time we read a book or watch a movie, we enter into an imaginative

Learning critical thinking is important not only for speaking to people outside the church but also for educating people on the inside

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

Living virtuously is how we live well with others. Seneca's claim is that social fellowship is finely textured, a matter of noticing a furrowed brow, an air of arrogance, a groan, hesitation, or on the positive side, the warmth of a smile or a shared laugh.

Epictetus tells us, "It is not easy to gain the attention of young men who are soft, for you cannot get hold of soft cheese with a hook; but the naturally gifted, even if you turn them away, hold all the more firmly to reason.

She always gave herself some time to browse the library shelves to check out new reads she hadn't heard about and wasn't sure she would want to stick with. Like agreeing to only coffee on a first date, rather than an entire meal.

She lifted her head, looked at me, and burped.

ASHLEY CARNARVON WAS TRYING TO DIG a single black sock out from under Eric Van Hoffendam's bed when he proposed. Which meant, given her position, hips in the air, feet wedged against the wall to give her leverage to reach the pesky sock, that he proposed to her butt.

To witness is the first responsibility.

Když se vám zdá, že odporuje, pak vy odporujete. Když nespolupracuje, ptejte se sami sebe, jak vy s ním spolupracujete.

Fiancé is such a cruel word. It shouldn't be. It should be beautiful. A bond, a promise. That's what the word means, after all. I looked it up once. Fiancé: from the French word 'fiance,' meaning, 'to trust.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Las batallas contra las mujeres son las únicas que se ganan huyendo

Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

the body evolved to gather vegetables, not to become them, and who resists being absorbed entirely by the creamy perilife that is the desk-computer dyad, may decide, Feh, I'll forgo the pills, I'll take a walk, I'll lift a weight, I'll visit my daughter and offer to babysit her kids right now.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting

The way I see it," Miles went on, "it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of your own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.

Write in different places—for example, in a laundromat, and pick up on the rhythm of the washing machines. Write at bus stops, in cafés. Write what is going on around you.

The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.