We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are … - Os Guinness

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I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.

Os Guinness

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.

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

Audience, Audience Of One, Gain, Gains, Live, Nothing To Lose

American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

Confused, Judge, Progressive, Side, Thinking, Views

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

Like, Ought, Permission, Power, You Like It

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

Conform, Desire, Desires, Truth

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

Fall, Hurt, Moving, Stopped, Useless