Quotes about Relevance
what he is to the inscrutable God is what matters.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do books'? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do Facebook'?
— Leonard Sweet
Twenty-first-century people hear and learn differently than most churches communicate.
— Leonard Sweet
If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
— Joel Osteen
Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.
— Jack Canfield
G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.
— Miroslav Volf
A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.
— Miroslav Volf
To exaggerate a bit: academic theology today is composed of specialists in an unrespected discipline who write for fellow specialists about topics that interest hardly anyone else.
— Miroslav Volf
The dead should not rule the living.
— Thomas Jefferson
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
— CS Lewis
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
Maxims are texts to which we turn in danger or sorrow, and we often find what seems to have been expressly written for our use.
— George Eliot