Quotes about Relevance
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
— CS Lewis
Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.
— Martin Luther
Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom.
— John Milton
It will take away a man's usefulness in his generation.
— John Owen
It's true, isn't it? Then what else really matters?
— Gordon Hinckley
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
— Francis Schaeffer
All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.
— Andy Stanley
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
— Tertullian
What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.
— Thomas a Kempis
She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own...
— Virginia Woolf
People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received
— Charles Dickens
lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications
— Charles Dickens