Oswald Chambers Quotes
The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.
Quotes to Explore
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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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.
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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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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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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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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.
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Angels are innumerable heavenly beings - immortal and invincible creations of God. He is the Lord of the hosts of heaven.
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Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.
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Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
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The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.
