Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.
Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.
Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.
Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.
Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be.
We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity and inter-connectedness of the nature of modern existence, then we will gradually notice a change in our outlook, so that when we say 'others' and when we think of others, we will no longer dismiss them as something that is irrelevant to us. We will no longer feel indifferent.
The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).
The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.
It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant
Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.
Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.
We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.
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