Quotes about Relevance

Jesus' enduring relevance is based on his historically proven ability to speak to, to heal and empower the individual human condition. He matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weakness he gives us strength and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity.

He comes where we are, and he brings us the life we hunger for. An early report reads, "Life was in him, life that made sense of human existence" (John 1:4). To be the light of life, and to deliver God's life to women and men where they are and as they are, is the secret of the enduring relevance of Jesus. Suddenly they are flying right-side up, in a world that makes sense.

Very few people today find Jesus interesting as a person or of vital relevance to the course of their actual lives. He is not generally regarded as a real-life personality who deals with real-life issues but is thought to be concerned with some feathery realm other than the one we must deal with, and must deal with now. And frankly, he is not taken to be a person of much ability.

Knowledge is the basis of belief, and, when it is, it gives the belief a very different bearing upon life.

I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

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.