Quotes About Relevance

What finite beings say about transcendence is the semblance of transcendence; but as Kant well knew, it is a necessary semblance. Hence the incomparable metaphysical relevance of the rescue of semblance, the object of esthetics.

In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as significant as those that do.

What falls away is always. And is near.

When a church ceases to have a heart and ministry for its community, it is on the path toward

Religious institutions have failed to be a force in the lives of the Millennials.

I simply know that if something is important to the church, it really cannot be over-communicated.

People have no desire to be a part of something that makes no difference, that expects little. And, frankly, many churches have dumbed down church membership to the point that it has no meaning at all.

The churches were purposeless. They were engaged in an activity called, "This is the way we've always done it.

When a church ceases to have a heart and ministry for its community, it is on the path toward death. Whenever local churches are mentioned in the New Testament, they are always exhorted to be other-centered.

When a church ceases to have a heart and ministry for its community, it is on the path toward death.

What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

The heavyweight division needs me.

If you go into a negotiating room and are like, 'Well I was on the same card as Conor McGregor, so maybe I should get a little bit more money,' they'll probably just look at you like, 'What? In what universe does that even make sense?' So I don't see how anyone could possibly think it's going to be a trickle-down effect.

If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.

I like to work smart and make music that people want to hear - just finding ways to not get on people's nerves when I'm coming through their ears.