Quotes about Involvement

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

The difference between being a church attender and a church member is commitment. Attenders are spectators from the sidelines; members get involved in the ministry. Attenders are consumers; members are contributors. Attenders want the benefits of a church without sharing the responsibility. They are like couples who want to live together without committing to a marriage.

But the first Christians didn't see Jesus this way, as if God were somewhere else and then cooked up some way to solve the sin problem at the last minute by getting involved as Jesus. They believed that Jesus was somehow more, that Jesus had actually been present since before creation and had been a part of the story all along.

All work is ultimately creative work because all of us are taking part in the ongoing creation of the world. There's

The first thing you have to do is throw yourself into whatever it is you're doing.

Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.