Quotes about Relevance
Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.
— Alvin Plantinga
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
— Rick Warren
The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the answer you'll return to again and again is: They speak to our human experience.
— Rob Bell
Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.
— Rob Bell
So if that's it, if that's the point of it all, if that's the ticket, the center, the one unavoidable reality, the heart of the Christian faith, why is it that no one used the phrase until the last hundred years or so?
— Rob Bell
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
— Leonard Ravenhill
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love without action is irrelevant, while action without love is meaningless...combine the two, what you can achieve is almost limitless.
— Deepak Chopra
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
— Alan Hirsch
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
— John Maxwell
Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.
— Rick Warren