Quotes about Relevance
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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.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
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
— CS Lewis
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
— Abraham Lincoln
I'd rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.
— Chris Claremont
The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.
— Jay Parini
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.
— Timothy Keller