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Os Guinness has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That…
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In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest…
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To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because…
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In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
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Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
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We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
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Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
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God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
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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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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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Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
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I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and…
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A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot…
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What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we…
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At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that…
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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]
— Oscar Wilde
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Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another…
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,…
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He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager…
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and…
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For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
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