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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.
Os Guinness
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Os Guinness
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 30
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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.
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The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .
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Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
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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.
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People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.
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Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
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Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
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Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.
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If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.
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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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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.
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We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.
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Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to break in the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
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God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
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The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
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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.
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We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
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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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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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