Quotes about Engagement
The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.
— John Eldredge
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
— Jonathan Edwards
I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.
— Joseph Campbell
He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.
— AA Milne
I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!' The Social Round. Always something going on.
— AA Milne
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
— AA Milne
Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.
— Abbie Hoffman
Much less may believers retreat to their ecclesiastical corner and, satisfied with simply having faith, abandon the building of the temple of science to unbelievers, as though science does not concern them.
— Abraham Kuyper
I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
— Jason Fried
Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.
— Michelle Obama
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
— Gloria Steinem
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
— Anne Lamott