Quotes About Relevance

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic . . . Do not defend God's Word, but testify to it . . . Trust to the Word. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic . . . Do not defend God's Word, but testify to it . . . Trust to the Word.

Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. . . . Do not defend God's Word, but testify to it. . . . Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity!

If nothing matters, why rage?

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."2

People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily to prepare financial reports and survive audits, but that is because accounting is something that has become taken for granted.

If you are building the wrong thing, optimizing the product or its marketing will not yield significant results.

As Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Religion, like philosophy, is a living thing. If it isn't allowed to change with the times, if it is left to calcify, it will surely become irrelevant

Alte Wahrheiten sind und klingen nicht originell, doch es sind und bleiben Wahrheiten, und das ist die Hauptsache.

What do you mean, something important? It's the middle of the night! -Sandstorm

Yes," he mewed. "It matters very much . . . to me.

Or am I just a useless elder?

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.

everyone assumes causation when they should be thinking coincidence, and correlation when they should be asking whether Twitter is really a reliable source of information.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

For educators, not providing a global context for your students in today's world is almost criminal.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Every true history is contemporary history.