Quotes About Relevance

The over-determined human mind would rather have everything relevant, even if the relevance is simple-minded.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

It's easy for our young people to think of the biblical stories as taking place long, long ago and far, far away, and thus having no real relevance for our contemporary situation.

Like fish, when metaphors get old, they go bad," writes Christian poet Jeanne Murray Walker,9 and nowhere is that more apparent than among Christians on a Sunday morning.

When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how about the last time a youth pastor subverted his or her "talk" through satire or parable rather than proof texting the six main points? Yet

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith, faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically. —MADELEINE L'ENGLE It's

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.

A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.