God In The Dark Os Guinness Quotes & Sayings

If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them whatever you can, hamburgers and KFCs. It's the middle classes who have moved into being able to own a car, a refrigerator. For them there is this mantra that the General Electric refrigerator is better than some other model, that the Cielo car is fancier than the Ambassador. — Vandana Shiva

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother. — Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Quite frantically, he longed not to be. — D.H. Lawrence

Healing Magic I instill,
Far Greater this,
Than any pill! — The Silver Elves

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God. — Os Guinness

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me! — Michael Crichton

I like wearing scarves in my hair because they make me look put together without taking a lot of time. — Lauren Conrad

To believe in God is to "let God be God." This is the chief business of faith. As we believe we are allowing God to be in our lives what He already is in Himself. In trusting God, we are living out our assumptions, putting into practice all that we say He is in theory so that who God is and what He has done can make the difference in every part of our lives.
This means that the accuracy of our pictures of God is not tested by our orthodoxy or our testimonies but by the truths we count on in real life. It is demonstrated when the heat is on, the chips are down, and reality seems to be breathing down our necks. What we presuppose at such moments is our real picture of God, and this may be very different from what we profess to believe about God. (God in the Dark, ch. 4) — Os Guinness

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there. — Tammy Blanchard

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater. — Mary Pope Osborne

Aging Poem I can live with my arthritis, And my dentures fit me fine. I can see with my bifocals, But I sure do miss my mind. — Michael Hodgin