Quotes about Engagement

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.

It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of hows; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise it's like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can't eat a cookbook!

The contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth and therefore in absolute honesty. Second, you must actually do it, not just read about doing it, think about doing it, understand how to do it, plan to do it, or imagine yourself doing it. It is a cookbook, not a dinner.

we are participating in His actual work.

If the audience gets to see anything in abundance, they lose interest.

I was not an activist.

I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

I knew some of the army quite well.