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Os Guinness Quotes: Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
         

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.


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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.





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