Oswald Chambers Quotes
Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
Quotes to Explore
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My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
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With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.
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What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.
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I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.
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I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
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If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come in at the bottom of the list.
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Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
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Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
