Quotes About Engagement

No man," Wilberforce wrote, "has a right to be idle." "Where is it," he asked, "that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

2) Singing can help us engage emotionally with words, which means that we need a broader emotional range in the songs we sing, and that singing them should be an emotional event.

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation

Preaching is one thing—and it is crucial. But hearing is another thing—and it is just as crucial.

The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.

He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That's the meaning of Advent.

You're not all that God has called you to be, as a follower of Jesus, if you're missions-minded but not engaged in God's mission here and now.

Communication works for those who work at it.

The described gathering of nations could only have application to two nations, if the meaning is, at it appears, that the world's nations gather in order to meet with each other in a formal, deliberative sense, not just a commercial or social sense. This is reasonable, in that all nations engage in trade with other nations.

David Bereit, Founder of Forty Days for Life, points out that any abortion clinic in America should have a sign in its window that reads "THIS ABORTION CLINIC IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE INACTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THIS COMMUNITY.

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

Stories get remembered about 13 times better than statistics. Facts tell, but stories sell!

A great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with. ~ Robert Levering, Co-Founder, Great Place to Work

Politics is the force that channels social, cultural, and economic powers and makes them imminent in our lives. Abstaining from politics is like turning your back on a beast when it is angry and intent on ripping your guts out.

Reading only a bit of a great book (e.g., Plato's Republic) is like getting engaged but never marrying. The initial experience is pleasurable but can become frustrating if prolonged.

Individual liberty is the whole purpose of political life, and I thought it was threatened then [in 1964 becoming politically engaged at age 15] and I think it's threatened now.

Discussion requires the participation of two people whose willingness to listen is as great as their desire to be heard.

The more attention you pay to your child, the less attention he will pay to you.

I also learned that most clergy are either unable or unwilling to engage the great theological issues of the day because of their perception that to do so will "disturb the faith and beliefs" of their people.

If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.

I]t invites us to think by not thinking for us; this is not to be dismissed as an absence of thought (or 'moral tone' for that matter), but as an absence full of potential presence, which the reader is invited to actively produce.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, "a crisis in my mental history

Academic readers of literary texts, since they do it for a living, tend to think they are more scrupulous than the general public who merely read for pleasure.