Oswald Chambers Quotes
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
Oswald Chambers
Quotes to Explore
One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.
Adam Hamilton
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
Dakota Johnson
It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
Carey Mulligan
There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
Dan Webster
I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
Mahalia Jackson
God forbid that women have fantasies.
E. L. James
As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.
Warren R. Austin
No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
Saint Ambrose
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
Beau Bridges
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West
God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
Yehuda Berg
... Sometimes, we try to stifle that fact or hide it, ... But the profound, and ultimately most important, reality is that we are not only citizens of this blessed country, we are citizens of the same awesome God.
Joe Lieberman
From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring - From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow - I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone - And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone -
Edgar Allan Poe
Some people think that the people they lead are too stupid to be told the truth, and thus they must be lied to, in order for a greater good to be accomplished. Some people believe in the system that has been set up, where the strongest among us is going to lead us in a fight, otherwise everyone is the same. That's the doctrine of pirates.
Zach McGowan
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
Nate Berkus
The door banged open and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. "It's not what you think." She said. "It was just - oh OK, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now WHAT?
Rachel Caine
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
Oswald Chambers