Quotes about Engagement

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

You cannot be the hands and feet of Jesus if you're sitting on your butt.

Following Jesus is a verb.

When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.

If you want to see God move, make a move.

Before entertaining guests, Roosevelt would read up on whatever subject matter they might be interested in. This enabled him to become quite the conversationalist. And I would suggest that it was one way in which Roosevelt loved his neighbor as himself—he showed genuine interest in their interests.

The Bible comes alive only when we actively obey it.

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.