Quotes about Participation

To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ.

Thus, Sabbath is a mighty antidote to an economy of depletion and diminishment, because it entails participation in a community that does not believe that human well-being and worth are established by endless productivity.

The light of revelation does not descend on us perpendicularly from above; it comes through worldly media by the power of God's Spirit, who enlists our participation in the process of responsible interpretation and critical appropriation.

Spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

Interest and participation in occult practices can be the door through which demons influence a person or become active in her life.

Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor; not the learned, more than the ignorant; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune. The electors are to be the great body of the people of the United States. They are to be the same who exercise the right in every State of electing the corresponding branch of the legislature of the State.

My fingers are always in every single pie.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.