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 key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.” — 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
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 Image
We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
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 Image
