Johan Huizinga Quotes

We need to harness the boundless energy and creativity of our youth.

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

I've always been a youth advocate. I mean, that's been my brand, reaching out to young people. All my life, when I've dealt with youth I'd be thinking back to my own experience. Now I look at my kids and think forward.

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.

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

I love the young people.

We have to let young people know that we care about them and their future. I want to involve them to a level where they become the leaders and the advocates because, right now, a lot of these young people don't believe they have an advocate.

Getting involved with the Boys and Girls Club helped keep me and my sister from getting in trouble.

Our Party attaches great importance to the work with young people and firmly believes in them.

We just need more father figures and more older people to come and school these youth, because there will be a lost generation. And that's what a gang's supposed to be, protecting family and doing what you've got to do for your loved ones.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

I absolutely loathe and hate the work... But I love youth. I realise how lucky it is being with youth, and what an honour that is. Nowhere else could a fat 47-year-old speak to people as young as this. They'd think you were a paedophile.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

What we do best is we target the young men and women who are on the fringe. They could go either way. Maybe they have been in trouble before, but not serious trouble. ... We cherry-pick them and circumvent them away from the gang members and drug dealers ... (and encourage) them to hang out with us and become a Guardian Angel.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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.

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

I have a lot of time for young people.