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Engagement Quotes

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1953). “St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Seen Through His Selected Letters”

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.151, Christian Fellowship Publishers

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

Anthony Giddens (1991). “Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.184, Stanford University Press

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

"After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration". Book by Peter Barker, Cecil G. Shugart (p. 179), 1981.

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

"Medical correspondent Dr. Ian Smith". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2010.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.108, Penguin