Relevance Quotes

“Words are just words who they come from gives them relevance and this relevance gives them the power to hurt you. Make those who hurt you irrelevant.”
― Wordions

“Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German.”
― Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation

“Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002.”
― Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

“Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer”
― Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World

“The same tongue that tastes a cube of sugar when it is placed in a small cup of water and appreciates it is the same tongue that tells the same cube of sugar how tasteless it is when it is placed in a large volume of water.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The idea of life is maximizing your time and living and effective life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read.

Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom is when we can read, question, adapt and apply what is relevant to the time and space in which we exist.”
― Lennox D.Lampkin

“The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.”
― Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation

“Churches are no more relevant because they haven’t balanced there teachings.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“When you develop your gift, you will be well known”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.”
― Alister McGrath

“Bring relevance to people and help them achieve their goals”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To be relevant, you need to be purposeful”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Bring relevance to the people before teaching them to be believers”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Having a job does not mean living”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Having a job is being busy”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Don’t equate effective living to being busy”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A busy life is not necessarily an effective life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Being dynamic doesn’t necessarily mean you live an effective life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“An effective life is not determined by how long you lived”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Life is not about longevity but about effectiveness”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The effectiveness of your life is determined by how much impact you make”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Our target as believers is to live an effective life, not just a long one”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The effectiveness of your life is determined by your ability to convert your time into values”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The way you spend your time daily determines how effective your life will be”
― Sunday Adelaja

“It’s either you are converting your time or not”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You must detach yourself from the stereotypical life to live an effective one”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The secret of effective living is detachment”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Being married or having children does not mean you are living an effective life”
― Sunday Adelaja