Os Guinness Quotes

The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

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

Balaam's ass is the patron saint of apologists. Madness, as we shall see, is an appropriate term for the unreality of unbelief.

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

Thinking Christians think in believing and they believe in thinking.

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.

Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.

The key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

Calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself.

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

All good thinking is a matter of asking and answering three elementary questions. What is being said? Is it true? What of it?

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

use questions to raise questions,

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

The truth is this: We always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but do not always know what God is doing and why.

The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

God is his own best apologist.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

We Christians must show again that we are both people of the Word and people who believe in words. Words are never mere words for us,

Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.

There is no question that the Four Spiritual Laws have been remarkably fruitful as a way of evangelism, but they are not good for everyone.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

We are spokespersons for our Lord, and advocacy is in our genes.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era ...

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.