Oswald Chambers Quotes

There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.

Oswald Chambers

Quotes to Explore

Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

Nancy Kress
- Up
- May
- Character
Change is no threat to culture.

Wade Davis
- Culture
- Change
- Threat
My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

Tawni O'Dell
- Up
- World
- Important
I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

Keinan Abdi Warsame
- Trying
- Thoughts
- Enjoy
At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Believe
- Giving
- Community
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson