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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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

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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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• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

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

  

  Dan Millman
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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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• Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

  

  Ian Frazier
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• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

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

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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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.

  

  Vera Brittain
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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.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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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.

  

  T. B. Joshua
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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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• Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

  

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• I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

  

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• God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya
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• Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

  

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• The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

  

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• 'The Shepherd Boy’s Song', in Part II, Ch. VI : The Valley of Humiliation; comparable to: 'I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower', Samuel Butler, Hudibras (1663), Part i, Canto iii, Line 877

  

  John Bunyan
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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
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  • Nature
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