Quotes about Relevance

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.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

Friends, loved ones, and even enemies influence us, but that doesn't mean their comments are relevant to your destiny.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.