Quotes About Relevance

Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.

in a postmodern world, even gods and sacred objects must travel or lose their vitality; any deity that remained stuck in its place and original purpose would soon become moribund.

The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.

A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist.

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

nowhere is the modern church more worldly than in its breathless idolizing of such modern notions as change, relevance, innovation and being on the right side of history.

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

As Simone Weil and others have established beyond question, only someone in touch with the eternal can hope to be eternally relevant—and faithful too.

Whether or not the Christian faith is true is now irrelevant. All that matters is that to more and more people in the modern world it no longer seems true.

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.

Apa pun pekerjaanmu..apa pun kastamu..kau tetap bisa mencapai pencerahan, tapi kau harus mempertimbangkan yang berikut ini.. Apa yang sudah pernah kaulakukan? Apakah itu berguna bagimu? Apakah itu berguna bagi orang lain? Atau apakah itu berguna bagi orang banyak? Apakah itu berguna bagi negerimu? Apakah itu juga berguna bagi dunia? Apa itu sangat penting bagi semua makhluk hidup dan seluruh alam? Jika tidak, kau harus berhenti.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

You can't disturb a nobody with evidence he's a nobody. A nobody is not disturbed by anything significant.