Quotes about Relevance
The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Advertisements with long copy convey the impression that you have something important to say, whether people read the copy or not.
- David Ogilvy
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
- David Ogilvy
Literality in satire is the condemnation by quotation.
- Elias Canetti
Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.
- Elisabeth Elliot
The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.
- Alvin Plantinga
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
- Rick Warren
Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the answer you'll return to again and again is: They speak to our human experience.
- Rob Bell
Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.
- Rob Bell
So if that's it, if that's the point of it all, if that's the ticket, the center, the one unavoidable reality, the heart of the Christian faith, why is it that no one used the phrase until the last hundred years or so?
- Rob Bell
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
- Leonard Ravenhill