Quotes about Participation

we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

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

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

We all need reminders that there is a huge difference between coaching from the spiritual sidelines and putting skin in the game. Between advertising for the cause and actually joining it. Between talking about it from afar and getting close enough for it to affect our comfort.

True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.