"We are not primarily called to do something……" — Os Guinness

"We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone."

— Os Guinness

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44 Quotes by Os Guinness

Os Guinness has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres…
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a…
In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is…
To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith…
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and…
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are…
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching…
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

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