Os Guinness Quotes
I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.
Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.
The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.
People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.
Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'
But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.
I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.
I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.
In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.
We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.
I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.
Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.
Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.
My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.
Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.
Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.
