Quotes about Engagement
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
— DL Moody
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task
— Etty Hillesum
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
— Joseph Campbell
Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.
— Jimmy Carter
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
— John Maxwell
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
— Ann Voskamp
Activity does not necessarily mean life.
— Philip K. Dick
No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.
— Les Brown
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
— George Eliot