Oswald Chambers Quotes

Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

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• I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

  

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• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

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• As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

  

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• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

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• It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

  

  Karl Barth
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• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

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• I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

  

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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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• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  

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• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

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• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

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• We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.

  

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• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  

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• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

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• God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

  

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• I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

  

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• There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

  

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• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  

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• Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.

  

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• I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.

  

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• must be searched for through dialogue, including with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

  

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• Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Nature
  • Human