Long Journey Home Quotes

“For any follower of Jesus Christ who follows this path on the quest for meaning, the statement is true: A Christian thinks in believing and believes in thinking.”
― Os Guinness, Long Journey Home : A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life

“The account in the gospel of John says three times that Jesus was angry. One of the words used is the Greek term for "furious indignation" - the word used by Aeschylus to describe war horses rearing up on their hind legs, snorting through their nostrils, and charging into battle. This was the reaction of Jesus of Nazareth when face to face with a loved one's death. The world that God created good and beautiful and whole was now broken and in ruins. In moments Jesus was going to do something, but his first response was outrage - instinctive, blazing outrage. Clearly, death was even worse in his eyes than in ours.”
― Os Guinness, Long Journey Home : A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life

“No one should take away the wrong lessons from the Jewish and Christian plight in the face of the modern world. Can others presume to step forward blithely to take over the baton? Hardly. The modern world's challenge to religion is not escaped so easily. The sorry state of these two biblical faiths under the impact of modernity is actually a compliment to them and a caution to others. Those first hit by modernity are those worst hit, but this is a backhanded acknowledgement of their leadership. Similarly, those farther behind may appear to be better off, but only so long as they stay farther behind and don't engage with the challenges of the modern word.”
― Os Guinness, Long Journey Home : A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life

“The only hope of success is the way of love as agape rather than eros. From this rival perspective, the secret of the search is not our "great ascent" but "the great descent" - of God toward us. Instead of the seeker finding love, love seeks out the seeker - not because the seeker is worthy of love but simply because love's nature is to love regardless of the worthiness or merit of the one loved.”
― Os Guinness, Long Journey Home : A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life

“Either we may seek to conform our desires to the truth, which leads to conviction, or we may seek to conform the truth to our desires, which leads to evasion.”
― Os Guinness, Long Journey Home : A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life

“Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.”
― Os Guinness, Long Journey Home : A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life