"Christianity is the only religion whose God bears……" — Os Guinness
"Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil."
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44 Quotes by Os Guinness
Os Guinness has 44 quotes on this site.
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In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres…
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We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a…
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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…
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To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith…
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In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and…
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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…
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By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching…
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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 devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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