Quotes
Quotes about Participation
It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in mind, the lay ministry, about which so much is being said at present, remains on the level of a many-sided activity in which the self-assertion of the laity threatens to be more evident than a new manifestation of the Church in modern society. The responsible participation of the laity in the discharge of the Church's divine calling is not primarily a matter of idealism and enthusiasm or organizational efficiency, but a new grasp and commitment to the meaning of God's redemptive purpose with mankind and with the world in the past, the present, and the future: a purpose which has its foundation and inexhaustible content in Christ.
Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
