Os Guinness
Os Guinness
Os Guinnessis an English author and social critic...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 September 1941
CountryIreland
jesus pat radical
Jesus called for nothing like this, and Pat Robertson sounded more like one of the radical imams.
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.
serious theology evangelical
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
irrelevance effort faithful
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant
christian missionary bishops
Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.
christian religious united-states
The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .
christian understanding quality
To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.
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.
opposites self have-faith
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
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.
arrogance mystery forget
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
excellent humans
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
idolatry mistaken dominant
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
diversity safe eras
...making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era....