Oswald Chambers Quotes

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

Oswald Chambers

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• Sympathy
• Intercession

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

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

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• 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

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• 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?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• 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
  • God
  • Together
  • Angels

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

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• 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

• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
  • God
  • Women
  • Fantasies

• Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • God
  • You
  • Thank God

• 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

• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Father
  • Space

• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • You
  • Person

• Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moment

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Law
  • Will

• I don`t know if Donald Trump`s ever been to an actual polling place, but, you know, he doesn`t even worry if what he says is true. This is just about him worried that he`s losing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Worry
  • Trump

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.

  

  Jane Green
  • Author
  • Marketing
  • Sales

• I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Kids
  • Free
  • Style

• Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Natural
  • Sympathy