Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is… — 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
“Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots—the faith, the ideas, the ethics… — 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
“The secret of a great life is often a man’s success in deciphering the mysterious symbols vouchsafed to him, understanding them and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Many lives have a mystical sense, but not everyone reads it aright. More often than not it is given to us in… — 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
