Quotes about Participation

Liturgical theologian Aidan Kavanaugh says it well: "The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is freed to learn things which cannot be taught.

Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

Voting is the best revenge.

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Without involvement, there is no commitment.

Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

I'd finally gained enough distance from my addiction to realize something. Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it.