Quotes About Relevance

As he grew older, his material was just as relevant and just as exciting and the band's just as killer... It seems surreal that there's no more Tom Petty, in person.

But it is a mistake to think news happens somewhere else. To others. The news is always about you.

But it is a mistake to think news happens somewhere else. To others. The news is always about you. You must simply fit yourself in it. You must see how—you must be vigilant.

The things that remain matter. Because of them, I can render a plausible life.

By 1940 'America first' had been entangled in America's political narrative for decades. Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee of 1940 were not the beginning of the story of 'America first'. They were the end–until Donald Trump resuscitated the term.

Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose.

It is its absence which defines the importance of a thing.

My story? How can that be relevant? There's not much to tell." "Every person has a story. And every story is important.

Does the first time matter that much?

Details aren't automatically interesting.

Is it so wrong to be needed?

The past is never dead. It is not even past." —WILLIAM FAULKNER

Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?

Like that whole Nicole Richie look was SO over

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

PART OF THE GENIUS of genuine Christianity is that each generation has to think it through afresh.

The question we need to ask today is this, and this question strikes to the heart of how we read the Bible: Do we seek to retrieve that cultural world and those cultural expressions, or do we live the same gospel in a different way in a different day?

We aren't called to live first-century lives in the twenty-first century, but twenty-first-century lives as we walk in the light of the revelation God gave to us in the first century.

The gospel is capable and designed to strike home in every culture, in every age, and in every language.

It is a fact that many statements about what the Bible says are derived from contextless exegeses of a former generation

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their "gospel" doesn't even need it!

I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over two hundred years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

History creates context; context creates meaning.

since all my letters are equally bare of personal information. The buildings I try to describe will last longer than we will, so it is only fitting that they should have the greater space.