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In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
Os Guinness
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Os Guinness
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 30
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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.
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Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves. In the end they would lose even the capacity to despise themselves. Thus, because of the 'death of God', they would confuse heaven with happiness, and happiness with health.
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I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
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