Impossible People Quotes

“Among a thousand things, this means there will always be natural limits to the humanity and size of our churches. The optimum size of human communities that are bonded by face-to-face relationships, we are told, is around the magic number of 150 to 200. So as soon as any human community goes above that number, whether in the direction of a megachurch, with its tens of thousands, or a megacity, with its tens of millions, it requires coordinating in ways that are other than face to face and fully human—whether lightly through the interconnections of the social media or more heavy-handedly through authoritarian political control. The nature and impact of that form of coordination then become critical.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“To flout the will of God openly will therefore be the fast track to social and national failure for Western nations.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“they have become notable features of the heart of modern darkness: no givens, no rules and no limits.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“The opposite of the weightlessness that leads to a nation’s collapse is revival, a return to the glory and therefore the reality and weightiness of God.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“When cultures reject God, they cut themselves off from the ultimate ground of reality,”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“In losing God the Western world had lost its soul and its center. It had become “weightless”—groundless, centerless, meaningless, insignificant and immaterial, with an “unbearable lightness of being.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“It is heaven that rules.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“but conformity to the will and the way of Jesus is life and freedom itself—under his authority.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever,”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“You can judge a culture by what it talks about and what it refuses to talk about, and talk of “spiritual warfare” would be a useful litmus test today.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“The West is cutting off its Jewish and Christian roots and destroying the entire root system of its culture,”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization