Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Os Guinness's Popular Quotes

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.

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In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

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Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

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Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

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We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

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Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surpr…

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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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Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

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American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and gett…

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