Quotes About Engagement

You do speak." It came out as an accusation. "When there's someone around worth speaking to.

Locked, cocked, and ready to rock, sir!

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, "Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

I remain convinced to this day that if we continue to lose young people in the church, it won't be because we made the gospel too hard but because we made it to easy. We

I remain convinced to this day that if we continue to lose young people in the church, it won't be because we made the gospel too hard but because we made it to easy.

Liturgical theologian Aidan Kavanaugh says it well: "The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is freed to learn things which cannot be taught.

Tony Campolo, back at Eastern College: "Jesus never says to the poor, 'Come find the church,' but he says to those of us in the church, 'Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,' Jesus in his disguises.

When one thousand people are engaged in agriculture and warfare, yet there is a single man among them engaged in Poems, Documents, argumentativeness and cleverness, then one thousand people all will become remiss in agriculture and warfare. … This is the teaching that impoverishes the state and weakens the army.

We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.

I've always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There's no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word.

Over there!" "Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something?

It must be a marvelous thing to feel so sure, to be able to meet someone's eyes and not look away.

Why aren't you playing?

If you two are done playing kissy-face," she said, tugging on the rope.

We are ill-fated in that our society demands we engage in unworthy conversations and dances in order to seem courteous, and yet such actions are ultimately vulgar.

Apple smiled at Hunter. And then—yes—she batted her eyelashes. He put a fist on his hip. "Of course! I—" "But no shirt-ripping, if you please," Raven said. "Just the chopping.

The women in this town are going to be so disappointed you're off the market." "There are other women in this town besides you?

This gives us two whys. Why do people still read Byomkesh? Why do we need a hot afternoon in a quiet house in a small town to discover Byomkesh?

In every moment of the day, in the middle of any day, I can become newly engaged with the world. Newly competent. There's so much to discover! I can still become something I am not.

I learned that the true purpose of working with a horse at liberty in a round pen is simply this: to capture his attention and get him interested in you.

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

It is what I do now: not go, not see or touch.

We said, to each other, I think, whatever came into our minds—put there by what the other had just said—as if we dropped, one by one, taking turns, those intensely dried paper flowers of my childhood, into a glass of water, and watched them uncurl, fast, uneven, and bright—and tossed another.