Quotes about Engagement
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.
— William James
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
— Helen Keller
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
Oh, one world at a time!
— Henry David Thoreau
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
— Henry Ford
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?
— Henry Ford
God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. —F. LINCICOME
— Leonard Ravenhill
Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do books'? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do Facebook'?
— Leonard Sweet
Christians have become passive spectators in worship rather than active participants. By and large, we come to church to "watch the show" rather than to engage and participate.
— Leonard Sweet
Twenty-first-century people hear and learn differently than most churches communicate.
— Leonard Sweet
You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to
— Leonard Sweet
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
— Mark Twain