Ben Harney Quotes

Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.

Young people are our future, and I always want to help them to grow.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.

Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

Dear young people, always be missionaries of the Gospel, every day and in every place.

I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. If, however, they are left on society's margins, all of us will be impoverished. Let us ensure that all young people have every opportunity to participate fully in the lives of their societies.

As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people - create internships, for example, even if it's only half-time.

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues.

It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.

There is nothing more important to this nation's future than investing in our young people.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them.

I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program.

Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.