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Os Guinness
Irish
Author
Born:
Sep 30
,
1941
American
Freedom
People
Society
Today
You
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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
Os Guinness
Hope
God
Prayer
People
Darkest
Before
Situation
Christian
Minutes
Spirit
Dawn
Hour
Renaissance
Gloom
Around
Always
Five
Revival
Reformation
Often
Just
Story
Turn
Holy
Should
Holy Spirit
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
Os Guinness
Positive
Today
Freedom
You
Oppression
Negative
Power
Alcohol
Addiction
Colonial
Freed
Freedom From
Whether
Ignored
Need
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.
Os Guinness
You
World
Key
Our
Analyzing
Dangers
Recognize
More
Discerning
Times
Where
Places
Should
Used
Resist
Sociology
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
Os Guinness
Balance
Vision
Will
Lost
Has-Been
Soon
Since
Days
Identity
Been
American
Sixties
American Identity
Republic
Unifying
Numbered
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.
Os Guinness
Today
Democracy
Class
People
Past
Few
Gone
Relatively
Wealthy
Known
Always
Been
Very
American
Middle
Middle Class
In The Past
Poor
Poor People
Large
Shrinking
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
Os Guinness
Faith
Freedom
Religion
Way
Consistently
Thoughtful
Deliberate
Only
Beyond
Also
Surprising
Question
Linked
American
Any
Anything
Republicanism
Founders
Routine
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.
Os Guinness
God
Made
Organic
Secretly
Seed
Kingdom
Clear
Like
Surprisingly
Organizational
Works
Grows
Jesus
I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
Os Guinness
Christian
City
Simplistic
Hill
Obviously
Advocate
America
View
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
Os Guinness
Three
Give
Global
Globalization
Quarrel
Continents
Lectures
Lived
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.
Os Guinness
Freedom
Communism
Long
Totalitarian
Prize
Anyone
Much
Fought
Lived
Conscience
Speech
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