Os Guinness Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Purpose, Asceticism, Emotion

  Os Guinness (1976). “In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it”, IVP Books

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• We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. 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.

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  Wise, Strong, Motivation

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

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  Born, Born Free, Worthy

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• If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

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  Calling, Ifs

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

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  Arrogance, Mystery, Forget

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

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  Idolatry, Mistaken, Dominant

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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.

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  Thinking, Grandparent, Polls

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• 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.

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  Art, Reading, Civilization

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• In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.

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  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

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  Diversity, Tasks, World

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