Quotes About Relevance

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

wake up who cares about little boys that talk too much

Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

We die exactly as much as the world ceases to be needed.

All knowledge is useful at the given time and place. Maybe nothing will be wasted; as long as you're still breathing and alive.

Big books are old fashioned. Now we focus on quality rather than quantity.

Compared to general opinion, personal opinion is simply unnecessary.

Of course, every organ in your body matters. Except your feet and your hands. You can still live without them. They are part of you, but not the real YOU.

Only the leaders and famous people will be remembered. The rest will be like pieces on the chessboard.

Something special may become unnecessary in the near future. The unnecessary becomes special too. Mood swings. That's why there is always a second chance in life.

Success is based on time. Therefore, you will be considered successful depending on the era and generation you live in.

The miraculous birth of Jesus is so easy to believe since it happened to another man with his wife. But it will be impossible to accept it in our generation, or when it happens to any of us.

You can't expect to rule anyone with the memorised laws inside your head, but you must adapt your attitude according to the time in which you are currently living in.

Christian ethics is not a matter of discovering what's going on in the world and getting in tune with it. It isn't a matter of doing things to earn God's favor. It is not about trying to obey dusty rulebooks from long ago or far away. It is about practicing, in the present, the tunes we shall sing in God's new world.

if it is true that Jesus ultimately fits no known pattern within the first century,51 it is more or less bound to be true that he fits none within the twentieth.

Precisely because the resurrection has happened as an event within our own world, its implications and effects are to be felt within our own world, here and now.

the reason Israel's story matters is that the creator of the world has chosen and called Israel to be the people through whom he will redeem the world.

In what sense is the Bible authoritative in the first place? How can the Bible be appropriately understood and interpreted? How can its authority, assuming such appropriate interpretation, be brought to bear on the church itself, let alone on the world?

The 'popular Paul' has all too often been addressing sixteenth-century questions in a nineteenth-century tone of voice

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

Put tradition first, and scripture will be muzzled and faded. Put scripture first, and tradition will come to new life. Better

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.