Quotes about Involvement

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

the most basic level of commitment by a Christian to his church is surprisingly substantial.

God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

Our vocation is not something we do for God- which would put the burden on us to perform and achieve. Instead, it is a way we participate in God's work. For God himself is engaged not only in the work of salvation, but also in the work of preserving and maintaining His creation.

Lethargy is evident in churches when the people have no sense of ownership.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded.