Quotes about Engagement

Live every day as if they last.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

what Jesus is saying is: 'I am setting you a hard task, and I am sending you out on a very difficult engagement. But I am going to send you someone, the parakl?tos, who will guide you as to what to do and enable you to do it.

Fourthly, As to the difficulty of procuring the necessaries of life, this would not be so great as may appear at first sight; for though we could not procure European food, yet we might procure such as the natives of those countries which we visit, subsist upon themselves. And this would only be passing through what we have virtually engaged, in by entering on the ministerial office.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

This generation can only reach this generation.

People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.