Quotes from Os Guinness
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
- Os Guinness
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
- Os Guinness
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.
- Os Guinness
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.
- Os Guinness
We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
- Os Guinness
Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.
- Os Guinness
Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.
- Os Guinness
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
- Os Guinness
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.
- Os Guinness
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.
- Os Guinness
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.
- Os Guinness
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
- Os Guinness