It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.
The real purpose of est was to create space for people to participate in life - to experience true space and freedom in life.
Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their own epistemology. But this is not New Testament preaching. We have a message that is not from this world; it is from God. We don't know it by our own cleverness; we know it because God has revealed it.
Fundraising is proclaiming what we believe in such a way that we offer other people an opportunity to participate with us in our vision and mission.
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind.
I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.
If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.
To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.
I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.
You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [. . . ] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.
It's important that the disparities in the living conditions cannot be allowed in this digital period to be too marked. Each and every one must be given an opportunity to participate, which is why Germany's fate in many ways depends on the firmness of its alliance with NATO, with the European Union.
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.
As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.