Quotes About Relevance

when we project our own cultural mores onto the original audience of the Bible, we may fail to apply the Bible correctly in our own lives.

Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

What does one want with dusty economic books, which have made the world no better, ...

Serious not in the sense of glum; but they must be convinced that our life is a state of some importance, and our earth not a place to beat time on.

We have also failed to grasp the fact that understanding requires action. If we are not politically active or reactive, then the act of understanding turns into only the expression and exchange of emotional responses.

I wanted to be like her because she mattered.

Culturally appropriate evangelism answers the actual questions being asked by a given culture rather than those questions the church believes the culture should ask.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

In the culture of do and tell, the biggest problem is that we cannot really know how valid or appropriate what we tell or are told is to the situation, unless we ask.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.

DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.

Don't major in minor things.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.

Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!

If you had to choose between art and the slogan, or between history and the slogan, you might as well choose the slogan and have done with pretending even to care about art and history. The reduction of all things to politics must reduce them, in their own right, to irrelevance.

because I believe that each generation should have a chance to see a giant figure of the past from the perspective of its own time and circumstances.