Os Guinness
Os Guinness
Os Guinnessis an English author and social critic...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 September 1941
CountryIreland
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
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.
arrogance mystery forget
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
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....
unstable source humans
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
lectures quarrel
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
citizens depending good government honest lots people worked
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
days lost republic since soon unifying
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.