Os Guinness
Os Guinness
Os Guinnessis an English author and social critic...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 September 1941
CountryIreland
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.
becoming calling matter
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.
keys stories calling
Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.
audience-of-one work-out calling
In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.
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At that point the creed becomes a way of saying what the infidel next door believes, too.
aim influence reach truly
The aim is to truly reach the gatekeepers, those who are astride the doorways of influence and power,
days lost republic since soon unifying
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
brilliant daring possible society stay understand
As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
citizens depending good government honest lots people worked
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
america obviously simplistic view
I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
class few gone known large middle people poor relatively wealthy
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
anyone conscience fought freedom lived prize
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
lectures quarrel
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.