Quotes from Os Guinness

May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to. —C. S. Lewis

After half a millennium of dominance, the West is being eclipsed in the global era, the United States as the lead society in the West stands on the verge of relative if not absolute decline, and much of the Christian Church in both Europe and North America is in a sorry state of weakness, confusion, unfaithfulness and cultural captivity.

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put

There still remains only God to protect man against man. Either we will serve him in spirit and in truth or we shall enslave ourselves ceaselessly, more and more, to the monstrous idol that we have made with our own hands to our own image and likeness. Etienne Gilson, 20th century

When we learn the wrong lessons of history, evil is reinforced rather than restrained- particularly when we use the injuries of the past to serve the interests of the future and ignore the injustices of the present.

Needless to say, the dynamic of the resurrection and a God who cannot be buried for long is the dynamic of a child's jack-in-the-box writ large in golden cosmic letters.

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

What we also need is a constructive overarching vision of Christian engagement in today's advanced modern world, one that is shaped by faith in God and a Christian perspective rather than by current wisdom, and one that can inspire Christians to move out with courage to confront the best and worst that we may encounter.

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. WILLIAM HAZLITT

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER