Quotes about Engagement
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
— Lewis Carroll
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
— CS Lewis
The job is not the work.
— Seth Godin
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
— Stephen Covey
I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.
— Al Gore
I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.
— Barack Obama
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
— George Eliot
Forget yourself and get to work.
— Gordon Hinckley
You should strive to govern by being as inclusive as possible.
— Kevin Faulconer
And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
— Madeleine Albright
I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.
— Tony Campolo
To exaggerate a bit: academic theology today is composed of specialists in an unrespected discipline who write for fellow specialists about topics that interest hardly anyone else.
— Miroslav Volf