Os Guinness Quotes

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• 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…
• We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism…
• In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the…
• To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of…
• In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
• Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
• We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
• Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
• God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
• Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called…
• By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have…
• Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
• If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for…
• This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our…
• We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but…
• The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.
• At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can…
• Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly,…
• We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
• I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

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