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“Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.”

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Os Guinness, born on September 30, 1941, is a British author, historian, and public intellectual. His works span a variety of fields including religion, politics, society, and culture, and have been well-received by readers. more

“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”

“Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.”

Ought Permission You Like It

Author:Os Guinness

“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”

People Fire Army Smoke Bullying Bully Fake People Bullied Be Courageous Dealing With People Being Bullied Anti Bullying Bullying Inspirational Cyber Bullying Inspirational Bullying Smoke And Fire

Book:Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Young duke and Count Alarcos

Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Young duke and Count Alarcos

“If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.”

Ifs Should Believe Understanding Doubt Stronger Unafraid

Author:Os Guinness

“This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts. The truth is not that God is finding a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing – and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.”

Perfect Fit Truth Is Findings Treats Employment Agency Executives Celestial Searchers Perfect Fit

Book:The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

Source: The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.”

Firsts Special Keys Devoted Answering The Call

Book:Rising to the Call

Source: Rising to the Call

“The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.”

Should Problem Christian Western

Book:The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

Source: The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!”

Ifs Heart Names Speak Christ Christianity Starting Candidates Starting Point Speaks Out

Author:Abraham Kuyper

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