Quotes About Relevance

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

That teaching according to which intellectual activity is worthy of esteem to the extent that it is practical and to that extent alone.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

En la calle la gente estaba a otras cosas. Las suyas, las que les importaban. Nada que ver con las mías, que de conocerlas les parecerían una estupidez.

I'm just trying to matter.

I'm just tryin to matter.

Theology that is not in touch with [the marginalized's] life experience cannot be living theology.

We're committed to the idea that a book has to live in the present . . . but the reality, that's hard for us to recognise, is that a book has to live in the future.

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Scripture is clear that without holiness no one will see the Lord (Heb. 12:14). In wanting to be "relevant" to those who are not in Christ, we may be displaying more of a life "in Adam" than we might think. This bodes ill for the art of persuasion in covenantal apologetics. If Christianity makes little difference in the way we walk and talk on a day-to-day basis, we should not think that there will be any obvious reason for others to want to consider a life in Christ.23

One person's data is another person's noise.

Age is irrelevant where two people have deep, sincere feelings for each other.

Mothers are so important. I came across a cable network exec who once told me they don't matter. Well, I disagree. Mothers matter a lot. Without mothers, there wouldn't be people. And mothers watch a lot of the programs on that cable network. No wonder why that network is barely surviving. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Mothers, Knowing Your Viewers, and Strong Leadership

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question "What do these people have to do with us?" and "What are we doing out there in the world?

The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You don't think that I would be one of the characters of today's modern Bible?

It is so delightful to be of enough consequence to be arrested

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.