Oswald Chambers Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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A hospital is no place to be sick.
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.
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All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.
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In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame.
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I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
