Quotes about Engagement

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

One reason the broader world does not look to Christianity for guidance is that we Christians have not spoken with a credible voice.

Always looking toward the next moment, the next month, the next event, rarely allowing myself the privilege of fully participating and embracing the happenings that were right before me for that day.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I'm not trying to be efficient; I'm trying to be present.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

Douglas Thornton [an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907] was often more amusing than he tried to be. He had a delightful way of mixing up two kindred proverbs or idioms. Once he told his companions that he always had two strings up his sleeve. They then asked him if he had another card to his bow. Such exchanges enliven heavy committee eetings and create wholesome laughter.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.