"In other words, we are never freer than……" — Os Guinness
"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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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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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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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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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
— Francis Bacon
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically…
— Mortimer Adler
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— Donald Berwick
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be…
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every…
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If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will…
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