Quotes About Relevance

Above all, Christianity must be presented in a way which Eastern peoples could understand and appreciate.

Mas o que me toca, assim como certos romancistas de nossa época, é que as vozes dessas pessoas, que no caso de Shakespeare nos chegam de uma distância de vários séculos, não nos pareçam desconhecidas. É tão vivo que acreditamos conhecê-las e vê-las.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

The past is prologue—and why are the lessons not being learned?

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Who has not the spirit of his age,Of his age has all the unhappiness.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Experiences that don't involve touching, seeing, or feeling actual results, such as being presented with an abstract sheet of numbers, are shown to be non-impactful and easily forgotten.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten, none are undeservedly remembered

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

o be entirely honest, I know of nothing quite so boring as Christianity without Christ.

This fundamental dimension of being itself, of the actual existence of what they are studying, is taken for granted by all other branches of knowledge, which then go on to study what it is and how it works. But just because something is taken for granted does not mean that it is unimportant.

Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Education, all smoothly say, is the production of useful citizens. But, good God, what on earth is a useful citizen just now?

But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

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.