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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thinking Christians think in believing and they believe in thinking. — Os Guinness

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

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

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

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. — Os Guinness

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

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

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

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. — Os Guinness

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

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

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. — Os Guinness

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

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires. — Os Guinness

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

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity. — Os Guinness

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

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

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

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom. — Os Guinness

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

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

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

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

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

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

use questions to raise questions, — Os Guinness

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

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

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God. — Os Guinness

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. — Os Guinness

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

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

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

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. — Os Guinness

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

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

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. — Os Guinness

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

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

God is his own best apologist. — Os Guinness

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

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, — Os Guinness

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

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. — Os Guinness