Quotes About Relevance

Debido a que Dios inspiró las Escrituras, crea que lo que lee fue destinado para usted, al menos de alguna manera que se asocia con Cristo, así como para los primeros que recibieron el mensaje. Sin esa actitud, rara vez percibirá la aplicación de un pasaje de las Escrituras a su situación personal.

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good, unless it be applied.9

Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.

A change in purpose changes a system profoundly, even if every element and interconnection remains the same.

Pretending that something doesn't exist if it's hard to quantify leads to faulty models. You've already seen the system trap that comes from setting goals around what is easily measured, rather than around what is important. So

Pay Attention to What Is Important, Not Just What Is Quantifiable

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

I firmly believe that until the churches of North America are led more deeply into the darkness of our epoch, they will continue to exist largely on the surface of life and history. I

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

Once managers figure out what they mean and why it matters, the issue in question starts to look a lot more measurable.

Every doctrine lives as it is applied and no other way.

Uncertainty was part of the appeal. That was just one problem with ministering to the youth of today?—?riding the wave of cool and contemporary youth ministry was like surfing the big ones, and with one false move, there you were with sand in your trunks.

Budi ono što jesi i kaži ono što osje?aš, jer oni koji imaju nešto protiv toga nisu važni, a oni koji su važni, nemaju ništa protiv toga.

They say Im old news. Well who the new star? Cause if Im goin anywhere its probably too far.

Isaiah Berlin argued, the kinds of descriptions that historians give of historical events wouldn't have made much sense to the people who actually participated in them.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.

One life matters - especially to the one whose life it is.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?