Quotes about Relevance

The opinion of a clever man who has had no experience is really of less value than that of the man in the street who has actually been there.

We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic.

A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.

Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.

I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.

Knowing that something is true does not in and of itself ensure that this truth will make a significant difference in our lives.

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

This is the status of the Bible in modern life: it is a sublime answer, but we do not know the question any more. Unless we recover the question, there is no hope of understanding the Bible.