I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

We are called to go make disciples, but how do disciples live? How do we function in the world—in our marriages, families, schools and places of business? How do we live as salt and light...

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist,...

It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects, and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person’s...

Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a diary of what you do all day and how you feel...

A boy with his girlfriend or a husband with his wife can be happy forever in their locked relationship only if he loves her as much as she loves solely to herself always and this...

When you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,And what is it to work with love?It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from...

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

What if we saw differences in cultures, in moral choices, and in belief as reasons to engage people instead of excuses to disengage and quickly exit?

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether, very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distraction of radio, but for the moment reading...

If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you’re beside the bridge, my child! I’ve no fancy for...

…Her boyfriend gives her a Mercedes, [her friends] say, ‘Oh, that’s nice.’ But her boyfriend gives her a diamond, they say, ‘Oh, he’s serious.’ It’s not just the gift of love-it’s the gift of commitment....

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

Saving and pinching to get married, you’re losing the best time of your life.

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

Enroll your body, soul and spirit and engage your time to do what you know best. Dedicate yourself to the work at hand and you will be rewarded by the fruits you will bear!

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

Well, and there is the end of our little drama,” I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in silence. “I fear that it may be the last investigation in which I shall have...

The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.

By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses.

I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.

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Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers’ job specification.

A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.

The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement.

It is not books on Christianity that will really trouble him (the materialist). But he would be troubled if, whenever he wanted a cheap popular introduction to some science, the best on the market was...

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says,” Gilbert had objected.”I’m not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears...

People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

Abruptly, Elliot startles us all by standing and pulling his chair back so it scrapes across the tile floor. All eyes turn to him. He gazes down at Kate for one moment and then drops...

Christian” movie because movies, though often remarkable pieces of art full of symbolism, commentary and meaning, are not sentient beings. Even the animated ones are, strictly speaking, still things, inanimate objects lacking eternal souls, incapable...

I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Where do the cereal bowls go?” Likely, one family’s is high, and the others is low. Where will they go now? In the bathroom. The bathroom is a battleground unmatched in the potential conflicts. Will...

office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating.

It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.

In Sweden, the guy wears an engagement ring, too.

Right and wrong applies to internet interaction. It’s #Netiquette.

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers’ personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field...

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

You will find that your library in Heaven contains only some of the books you had on Earth, the ones you gave away or lent.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.

Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good.

Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!

While complying can be an effective strategyfor physical survival, it’s a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those incontrol. Yet in our offices and...

Berg paid his way with stories.

The way you engage someone’s pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it.