Oswald Chambers Quotes
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
Quotes to Explore
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
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Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.
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Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
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Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.
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Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
