Oswald Chambers Quotes

We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.

Oswald Chambers

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• I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.

  

  Olly Murs
  • World
  • Heart
  • Job

• I feel fine as long I'm not running around.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Long
  • Running
  • Feel

• 'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.

  

  Patina Miller
  • School
  • Hair
  • Couple

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Baby
  • Complete

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Too Much

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Better
  • Television

• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Child

• Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Experience
  • Learn
  • Forget

• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Goals
  • Based
  • Objectives

• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Turn

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Time
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nature
  • Education

• Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • Stop

• I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• When I was a young person, when I was in high school, we did a very emotional and wonderful - for us, life-changing - production of 'Godspell.' It really, really was the highlight of my high school time, and it was for everybody else in the cast, too.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Life
  • Time
  • School

• I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Music

• Most of my thinking is done at night.

  

  Estelle
  • Thinking
  • Done

• We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • God
  • Trust