Quotes about Participation

Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away.

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement of God that is continuing forward in the culture around them . . . without their participation.

When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an endless giving circle of joy and creativity.

All work is ultimately creative work because all of us are taking part in the ongoing creation of the world. There's

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

People really respond when given an opportunity to take part in something.

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.