Quotes About Relevance

One stupid quiz about one stupid thing that happened three hundred years ago to a bunch of people nobody cared about, that didn't have anything to do with real life.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The seriousness of a theorem, of course, does not lie in its consequences, which are merely the evidence for its seriousness.

We have concluded that the trivial mathematics is, on the whole, useful, and that the real mathematics, on the whole, is not.

The Church should adapt itself to the manners of the time, since it seems only too clear that the manners of the time adapt themselves less and less to the Church.

reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.

The lines mean that one doesn't have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.

but I'm not sure I'm the intended audience.

irrelevancy.

Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful. Not everything matters equally

Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful. Not everything matters equally, and success isn't a game won by whoever does the most.

Prayer pushes eternity back into our lives, making God ever more relevant to the way we live our lives.

Prayer helps us to regain the proper priorities, discern biblical wisdom, and make right judgments. Without prayer, Glaspey might say, we live as temporal people with temporal values. Prayer pushes eternity back into our lives, making God ever more relevant to the way we live our lives. PRAYER PUSHES ETERNITY BACK INTO OUR LIVES, MAKING GOD EVER MORE RELEVANT TO THE WAY WE LIVE OUR LIVES.

Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. "You're my sacred ones," I told the books. "No one but me still cares about you. But I'm going to keep you with me forever. And one day I'll make you important again." I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.

Sir Thomas Beecham once said this at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall when I was there as a boy. He said 'I'm often asked why operas survive generation after generation—La Bohème and things like that. And I always reply. 'They survive because they consist of bloody good tunes'.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

People understand ideas when ideas relate to something they already know.

Trying to suppress atheistic thought on the internet does nothing to address the causes of people's religious doubts and may actually increase their curiosity. People would not be seeking out this material unless they felt it had some relevance to their own situation and attempts at censorship imply a fear that religion cannot win the argument on evidence and reasoning alone.

I think satire is at its best when it's taking on something that's really important, but doing it in a way that's funny and engaging.