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.
becomes creed door next point saying
At that point the creed becomes a way of saying what the infidel next door believes, too.
desire conform
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
you-like-it permission ought
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
evil judging
In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.
evil bears scar
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
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.
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.
distance father home
In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.
jesus men agony
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
serious theology evangelical
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
audience-of-one work-out calling
In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.
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
becoming calling matter
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.