Quotes about Relevance

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.

Il passato non è morto e sepolto. In realtà non è neppure passato

The past is never dead. It's not even past; it's always part of the present.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

Whether you see Him at work is irrelevant to the fact of God's presence in our world. He is actively and intimately involved in both the affairs of this world and the details of your life.

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.