In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power… — 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 and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society. — 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
