Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.” — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful,… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths. — Os Guinness Copy Share
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives. — Os Guinness Copy Share
American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting… — Os Guinness Copy Share
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison… — Os Guinness Copy Share
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought. — Os Guinness Copy Share
“It is realistic rather than cynical to observe that in a fallen world there are degrees of virtue in relation to what is right,… — Os Guinness Copy Share
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as… — Os Guinness Copy Share
“The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would… — Os Guinness Copy Share
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we… — Os Guinness Copy Share
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology. — Os Guinness Copy Share
“Sometimes when I listen to people who say they have lost their faith, I am far less surprised than they expect. If their view… — Os Guinness Copy Share
“Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.” — Os Guinness Copy Share
This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for… — Os Guinness Copy Share
We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us. — Os Guinness Copy Share
Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him. — Os Guinness Copy Share
