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Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Os Guinness

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Os Guinness
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 30
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China
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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.
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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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Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
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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.
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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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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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In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.
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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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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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We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere we are called to Someone.
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Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.
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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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We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.
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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 be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
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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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People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.
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