Quotes about Engagement

Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn." (Winston Churchill)

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

to a church where people don't mind expressing themselves.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

[God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.