130 Quotes by Os Guinness

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, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.