Worldly Involvement Quotes

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

I believe that he [Jesus] is Lord of the government, and the church, and business and education, and, hopefully, one day, Lord of the press. I see him involved in everything. And that's why I don't want to stay just in the church, as such. I want the church to move into the world.

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

When I go to Bali, when I come to India and travel and see different cultures. I make sure I'm involved in the world out there, creatively, culturally.

If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists.

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.