Quotes about Engagement

And to be effective, that statement has to come from within the bowels of the organization.

Though they may have to prioritize the use of their influence, proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively.

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!

Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.

Without the proper engagement in truth, your life will degenerate and you will end up embittered and in hell.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.

When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.