Os Guinness
Os Guinness
Os Guinnessis an English author and social critic...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 September 1941
CountryIreland
art reading civilization
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.
jesus cost followers
Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.
born born-free worthy
Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.
diversity safe eras
...making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era....
idolatry mistaken dominant
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
excellent humans
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
purpose asceticism emotion
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
arrogance mystery forget
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
waiting argument
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
christian problem should
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.
opposites self have-faith
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
addiction alcohol today
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
mind disposition importance
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
christian religious united-states
The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .