Quotes about Participation

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

When God does the big things, the little people get drawn in too. Human systems often forget that, but God doesn't.

Our vocation is not something we do for God- which would put the burden on us to perform and achieve. Instead, it is a way we participate in God's work. For God himself is engaged not only in the work of salvation, but also in the work of preserving and maintaining His creation.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded.

If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in.

I am persuaded that the church today has many more consumers than committed participants.

Many, many believers think of their church as a place to attend rather than something with which they are intimately involved.

He who participates in God participates in eternity.