"We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone."

--

Source : Os Guinness (2008). “Rising to the Call”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

Os Guinness

“A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting ***** in the world!...”
“Iâ€™ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. Itâ€™s like my last luxury.”
“Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.”
“Wait until you see him up on a horse”
“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”
“The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.”

Source : "A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1728.
“The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.”
“Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.”

You may also like: