Quotes About Relevance

We do not need to theorize about Jesus; we need to make him present in our time, our culture, and our circumstances. Only

Az új b?nözÅ' osztályok szimbiotikus rendszere mellé az orvostudomány megteremtett még valamit, ami annál is összehasonlíthatatlanul rosszab, a hosszú élettartamot, s vele egyre több öreget, akikre a társadalomnak nincs szüksége, akiknek nincs mit csinálniuk, s akiket nem tisztelnek.

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful...

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation...

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self.

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life.

I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her vulnerable self... to enter into a deeper solidarity with the anguish underlying all the glitter of success and bring the light of Jesus there.

Jesus' first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation that allows them to enter into a deep solidarity with the anguish underlying all the glitter of success, and to bring the light of Jesus there.

The world grew cheap, as worlds must.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.

vi har så travlt med at anlægge en magnetisk telegraf fra maine til texas; men måske har maine og texas ikke noget af vigtighed at meddele hinanden

There's no new news, just old news with new dates

Wir haben es eilig, eine telegrafische Verbindung zwischen Maine und Texas herzustellen: aber Maine und Texas haben sich vielleicht gar nichts Wichtiges mitzuteilen?

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

It is as foolish to try to preserve obsolescent industries as to try to preserve obsolescent methods of production: this is often, in fact, merely two ways of describing the same thing.

She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine.

Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one would have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things.

What had come to pass within his walls lingered there as an obsession importunate to all his senses; it lived again, as a cluster of pleasant memories, at every hour and in every object; it made everything but itself irrelevant and tasteless. It remained, in a word, a conscious watchful presence, active on its own side, forever to be reckoned with, in face of which the effort at detachment was scarcely less futile than frivolous.

I don't care who you may be--I don't want to know; it signifies very little to-day.

Ma faiblesse à moi, c'est de crier sur les toits chaque fois que je crois avoir découvert quelque chose qui me paraisse d'une importance vitale.

Information. What do you know about the salesman's needs or the store's needs? Is the salesman on salary, commission, or a combination of both? You don't know.