I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.' — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith . — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Christians simply haven't developed Christian tools of analysis to examine culture properly. Or rather, the tools the church once had have grown… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“What we also need is a constructive overarching vision of Christian engagement in today’s advanced modern world, one that is shaped by… — 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 Image
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.” — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
