Os Guinness Quotes

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

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

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

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

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

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.

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

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

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

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

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

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Acting is happy agony.

Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag.

I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

I don't do event dressing, because every day is an event.

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.

My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

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

Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to be more satisfying in the end