"We betray our modern arrogance and forget the……" — Os Guinness
"We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us."
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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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Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
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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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
— Eric Bana
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
— Joe Biden
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness…
— Alain de Botton
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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