Os Guinness
Os Guinness
Os Guinnessis an English author and social critic...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 September 1941
CountryIreland
errors views opposites
As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair.
people world littles
People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.
mean calling response
Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.
calling ifs
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.
art reading civilization
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.
jesus cost followers
Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.
born born-free worthy
Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.
diversity safe eras
...making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era....
idolatry mistaken dominant
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
excellent humans
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
purpose asceticism emotion
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.
arrogance mystery forget
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
waiting argument
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
christian problem should
The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.