Oswald Chambers Quotes
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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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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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.
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Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.
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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
