Quotes about Engagement

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

The moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

Indifference is a form of sloth. For one can work hard, as I've always done, and yet wallow in sloth; be industrious about one's job, but scandalously lazy about all that isn't the job. Because, of course, the job is fun. Whereas the non-job---personal relations, in my case---is disagreeable and laborious.

No, you accept the world, and you make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good, unless it be applied.