Timeless Message Quotes

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

The Gospel never grows old. It applies to every generation alike. We have to make a choice.

I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time. Even though they are usually singing similiar messages that are in today's music, it is good to be reminded that the message of Christ is just as much relevant today as it was then.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

A record is a message, timeless.

I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.

It's the difference between a parable and a pamphlet. A parable discusses things that are relevant in the past, the future, and the present - regardless of the outcome in the present. A pamphlet, on the other hand, is completely concerned with affecting an outcome in the present, the most immediate present.

God's word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now.

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.