Os Guinness

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

— Os Guinness

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

— Os Guinness

American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good…

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What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like…

— Os Guinness

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

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“It is realistic rather than cynical to observe that in a fallen world there are degrees of virtue in relation to what…

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For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and…

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“The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself,…

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By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to…

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Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

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“Sometimes when I listen to people who say they have lost their faith, I am far less surprised than they expect. If…

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“Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.”

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This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect…

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We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

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Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to…

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Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and…

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“To make the choice of career or profession on selfish grounds, without a true sense of calling, is “probably the greatest single…

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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

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“It is a peculiar modern superstition that to achieve success in any area we have to make that area the be all…

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“For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots—the faith, the ideas, the ethics…

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Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet…

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“The truth is that the greatest enemy of the Western church is not the state or any ideology such as atheism, but…

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If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is…

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We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another…

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“After half a millennium of dominance, the West is being eclipsed in the global era, the United States as the lead society…

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