Oswald Chambers Quotes

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Important
  • Point
  • Actress

• Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Important
  • Women
  • Economy

• What is important is to win.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Important
  • Win

• Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Style

• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Important
  • Rules

• Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Important
  • America
  • Know

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Important
  • School
  • High

• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Important
  • Man
  • Prayer

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • God
  • Day
  • Thankful

• Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

  

  Walter Smith
  • God
  • Down
  • Looking

• Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Good
  • Important
  • You

• I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.

  

  Damien Rice
  • God
  • Live
  • Love

• I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Stand

• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Saints

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

  

  Joel Grey
  • People
  • Funny
  • Powerful

• Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Jazz
  • Argument
  • New Orleans

• I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

  

  Freema Agyeman
  • People

• The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Important
  • Prayer