Quotes About Relevance

Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.