Oswald Chambers Quotes
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Quotes to Explore
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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It is a little empty without her here but I have my own things to worry about.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
