Top 25 Quotes by Os Guinness of 60 - Page 3

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

Os Guinness

Mean, Calling, Response

Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

Os Guinness

Born, Born Free, Worthy

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

Os Guinness

Calling, Ifs

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

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.

Os Guinness

Errors, Views, Opposites

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

Os Guinness

Arrogance, Mystery, Forget

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

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

Os Guinness

Idolatry, Mistaken, Dominant

Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.

Os Guinness

Thinking, Grandparent, Polls

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.

Os Guinness

Art, Reading, Civilization

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.

Os Guinness

Christian, Heart, Practice