Quotes About Relevance

Useful learning needs to begin where the student is at that time and then builds on what that person knows. The biggest challenge to an educator is what to forgo from the 'old' curriculum in favour of something more relevant. Then

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

Content is king, but context is God.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause and effect, beginnings and ends, don't have any impact or relevance.

Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.

The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.

We always want to let people leave with some sort of like, "Great, I want to see more." Not, "Oh my God, that's still on?"