Quotes about Engagement

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.

We can't treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.

What counts in evangelism is not cognition, but recognition. Can

The church doesn't lose its kids when they go to college. We start losing them in middle school. We lose children in the church when we send them out of worship to children's church or Sunday school. This is one reason why Jesus kept insisting, "Let the little children come to me."[222

preachertainment"?

We are what we do with our attention."64

And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort, she had said, so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.