Os Guinness Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by Os Guinness
Os Guinness Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Os Guinness on Wise Famous Quotes.
Balaam's ass is the patron saint of apologists. Madness, as we shall see, is an appropriate term for the unreality of unbelief.
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
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.
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.
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.
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 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,