Oswald Chambers Quotes

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Oswald Chambers

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• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Mom
  • Talent

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • God
  • Government
  • Come

• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Remember
  • Death

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • God
  • Always
  • Teeth

• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Done
  • Politics

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • God
  • Long
  • Thank God

• If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • God
  • Education
  • Technology

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Place

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Joy
  • Forward
  • Meeting

• There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Being
  • Opposite

• How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

  

  William Blake
  • Joy
  • Born
  • Bird

• Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Work
  • Death

• When you buy something for $9.99, and you know that it'll fall apart after you wear it once... you're going into the shopping experience knowing that you're renting. So all I'm doing is making the rental process more efficient.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Experience
  • Fall
  • Shopping

• As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

  

  Alan Bean
  • Up
  • History

• There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Soul
  • Joy