"We are not wise enough, pure enough, or……" — Os Guinness
"We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world."
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Os Guinness
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44 Quotes by Os Guinness
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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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