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“The key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.”
― Os Guinness, Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times

“To follow Jesus is to pay the cost of discipleship, and then to die to ourselves, to our own interests, our own agendas and reputations. It is to pick up our crosses and count the cost of losing all that contradicts his will and his way—including our reputations before the world, and our standing with the people and in the communities that we once held dear. It is to live before one audience, the audience of One, and therefore to die to all other conflicting opinions and assessments. There is no room here for such contemporary ideas as the looking-glass self, and no consideration here for trivial contemporary obsessions such as one’s legacy.”
― Os Guinness, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I never lose. I either win or learn.”
― Nelson Mandela