Quotes about Relevance

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

People just want to know that they matter.

God's Word is perfect, ever relevant, speaking to all issues, for all of life.

God's Word is perfect, ever relevant, speaking to all issues, for all of life.  

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes, were the more common weapons that he used. The consequence was that his hearers always understood him. He never shot above their heads. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.