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

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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

“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

“When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.”

Running Winning Sin Enemy Principles Fire Calling Battle Lays Conviction Friends And Enemies

Author:Abraham Kuyper

“It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.”

World Littles Hands Form Christ Community Church Impossible Limits Increase Riches

Book:The Work of the Holy Spirit

Source: The Work of the Holy Spirit

“Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.”

Humans Character Church Aspect Human Life Impress Theological Calvinism

Book:Lectures on Calvinism

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.”

Knows Way Giving Ends Helping Christian Lying Energy Love You Abuse Guilt Charity Cancer Our Society Destroying Vitality Christian Love Resourcefulness

Author:Abraham Kuyper

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