Oswald Chambers Quotes
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I love working the legislative process.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.
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Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
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We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.
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Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
