Oswald Chambers Quotes
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
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For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.
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It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.
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When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
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I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition.
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The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
