“Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.” PeopleWayChrist Book:In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it Source: In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it
“We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God's descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace.” WayHumansLyingFallSecretGraceSeekingQuestsAnother WayBrillianceDescentWithout GodAscent Author:Os Guinness
“Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.” WayHumansMadeSpiritualityCoursesGivenChanceHuman BeingsSleepIntegrityTreatsErrorsTheologyWho We AreSpokesFedsRemedyElijahHumannessGood ChanceHumanness Is Author:Os Guinness
“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.” IfsWorldWayEnoughStoriesTodayLyingMotivationStrongLinesAnswersExistenceSituationWiseOur LivesModernMastersKeysTomorrowCallingPureDemandUltimateAimLifetimeChaosMotiveCarrieStrong EnoughFanaticismChaoticUnchangingTracingToday And Tomorrow Book:The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life Source: The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
“By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant” WorldWayNeedsWellsLostChristEffortModernCryIdentityAuthorityDeterminedPursuitFaithfulRelevantCompellingIrrelevantFaithfulnessModern WorldRelevanceBeing FaithfulUnfaithfulBreathlessMatchingIrrelevance Author:Os Guinness
