Quotes About Engagement

Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Too many are willing to sit at God's table, but not work in his field.

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

It's our Christian duty to offer spiritual worship to God that engages our minds, stirs our hearts & flows from our lips

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.

The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn't have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

God has allowed me to communicate well with people who are younger than me.

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.