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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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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,…
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Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
— Charles Simmons
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...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not…
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I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the…
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For somebody to take a shot at him is totally disappointing and hurtful to my family, my mother, his wife and child.…
— Rick Hendrick
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We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.
— Os Guinness
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Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.
— Henry David Thoreau
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An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
— Samuel Johnson
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Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams.…
— George Steiner
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She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move…
— Rachel Klein
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Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship?…
— Milan Kundera
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