Oswald Chambers Quotes

If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

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• There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

  

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
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• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  

  Earl Scruggs
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• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

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• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
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• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

  

  Dacre Montgomery
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• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Good
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• Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
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• Proust is a huge author for me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
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• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
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• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

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• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them.

  

  Frank Deford
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• Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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• Time is the very lens through which ye see - small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope - something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Reality

• If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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  • Believe
  • May