Quotes about Engagement

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?

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation

Preaching is one thing—and it is crucial. But hearing is another thing—and it is just as crucial.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.

You're not all that God has called you to be, as a follower of Jesus, if you're missions-minded but not engaged in God's mission here and now.

I look upon the world as my parish.