Oswald Chambers Quotes
'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
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The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history.
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Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.
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'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
