Oswald Chambers Quotes
Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
Quotes to Explore
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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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.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.
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For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
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Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
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Shopping is better than sex. At least if you're not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
