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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.
Os Guinness
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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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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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Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
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People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.
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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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Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
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Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.
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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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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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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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We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.
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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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The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
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