Os Guinness Quotes

I'm trying to do the work God created in my heart to do.

God used Donald Trump in my life as much as I was used in his life.

When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life - including your pain - as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself.

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.

God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.

Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose.

Christ did not die to give people a career but to save the lost.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

You and I live to manifest the Glory of God.

God has always been the head of my life, even before I knew it.

For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day at a time. Any aspirations, visions and dreams died a long time ago and I have absolutely no interest in resurrecting them (they would stink by now anyway). I have finally figured out that I have nothing to lose by living a life of faith. I know more joy every minute of every day than seems appropriate, but I love the wastefulness of my Father's grace and presence. For me, everything in my life that matters, is perfect!

He has guided my hands in ways I don't always understand, ways that people of this world would scoff at. But there is a purpose for all that I have ever made, even if I don't understand for certain what that purpose is.

God didn’t want me to do more for Him. He wanted me to be more with Him.

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

You got your God and so do I.

If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it.

It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

God cannot be explained... God can only be lived.

A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I'm supposed to be.