Quotes about Engagement

The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.

Activism. Belief in the gospel needs to be expressed outwardly.

Many modern Christians will take the best programs from every church while committing to no church. They even have a name for it: "church shopping.

Most Christians are sheltered within their own groups and are too busy arguing with other Christians to notice the sad state of Christianity in a broader sense.

Corporate worship is to be seeker sensible.

Corporate worship is to be missional.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

Now, how did you know that I was going to propose? I asked in genuine wonder. Don't women always know? Do you suppose any woman in the world was ever taken unawares?

Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that in her pride she becomes giddy, suppose that she does break with me-all right! -she has her freedom, but she will still belong to me. That the engagement should bind her is silly-I want to possess her only in her freedom

The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember.

The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

No man," Wilberforce wrote, "has a right to be idle." "Where is it," he asked, "that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?