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We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere we are called to Someone.
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Os Guinness
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 30
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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 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.
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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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I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
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The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .
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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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The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
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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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In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.
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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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Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
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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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Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
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