The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions… — 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
