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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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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
— Henry Adams
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets.…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
— John Lyly
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Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
— William Shakespeare
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only…
— Samuel Johnson
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
— James Boswell
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Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is…
— Pietro Aretino
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