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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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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Life is adventure, not predicament.
— James Broughton
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude…
— Clarence Budington Kelland
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When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies…
— Ravi Zacharias
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I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and…
— Peter Cosgrove
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
— Colin Firth
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Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!
— Mitch Hedberg
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We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I…
— Ric Ocasek
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When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope…
— Kevin Eikenberry
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