Quotes about Engagement
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
— Winston Churchill
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
— Aristotle
Happiness is activity.
— Aristotle
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
— JM Coetzee
We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).
— Pope Francis
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
— George H. W. Bush
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
— Albert Einstein
This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.
— Shane Claiborne
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
— Albert Camus
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
— GK Chesterton
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
— Eugene Peterson