Oswald Chambers Quotes

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

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• Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • God
  • Done
  • Thank God

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • God
  • Pride

• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Doing
  • Look

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

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Liberty

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Job
  • Computer

• It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• 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

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

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• 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

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • God
  • Man

• The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Holiness

• Our generation delimited the definition & horizon of Love in a box that mainly refers to love between a boy & a girl. Love has a broader & profound meaning beyond this box. Surely, the highest state of love is Love of God, a love between creations & the Creator.

  

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
  • God
  • Love
  • Girl

• Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

  

  Jimmy Wales

• Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Life
  • Real
  • Soul

• As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Surprises
  • Soon