Oswald Chambers Quotes

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

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• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mother
  • Everything

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Know
  • Food

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Revolutions

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Kindness

• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Morning

• It's just this huge sense of relief I have with myself right now... It took me to be 31 to go, 'Wow, I'm really happy being a model.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Sense

• Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers. There are men who can't be bought.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Control
  • Wisdom
  • Logic

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Fate

• The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Energy

• The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • People
  • Friends
  • Christian

• Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

  

  Andre Benjamin
  • Money
  • Art
  • Energy

• I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

  

  P. D. James
  • Music
  • Book
  • Nature

• Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Why
  • Behinds

• Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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