Quotes about Engagement

Every Christian must be "fully human" by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some "spiritual" realm. To be an ethereal figure who merely talked about God, but somehow refused to get his hands dirty in the real world in which God had placed him, was bad theology. Through Christ, God had shown that he meant us to be in this world and to obey him with our actions in this world.

We pretend we would have spoken out for the Jews in Bonhoeffer's day, or that we would have spoken against the slave trade in Wilberforce's day, but are we speaking out today on the issues that are no less important to God in our time? If not, we are deceiving ourselves.

I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission.

I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.

Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.

Jesus never allowed himself to be defined by the political conflicts of his day, and neither should we.

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.