Os Guinness
Os Guinness
Os Guinnessis an English author and social critic...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 September 1941
CountryIreland
We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.
christian prayer people
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
men depth height
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.
evil bears scar
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
sweet heart enemy
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.
jesus kingdoms made
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
confused thinking views
American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.
desire conform
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
blood sloth mind
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.
evil judging
In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.
you-like-it permission ought
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
hurt moving fall
The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.
audience-of-one gains nothing-to-lose
I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
almost christian loss ranks sorry
In the sorry ranks of the revisionists, the loss of anything identifiably Christian is now almost complete,