"Either we conform our desires to the truth……" — Os Guinness
"Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires."
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44 Quotes by Os Guinness
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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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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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If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing…
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More Conform Quotes
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't…
— Erykah Badu
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything…
— J. G. Ballard
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I don't care much about conforming.
— Mayim Bialik
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those…
— David Bohm
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that…
— Harry Browne
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger…
— Steven Brust
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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
— Sandra Bullock
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the…
— Ronald Reagan
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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something…
— Sun Tzu
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I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end…
— Bill Maher
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