Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That… — 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
