Oswald Chambers Quotes

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

Oswald Chambers

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• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
  • Speak
  • Speech

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • First
  • Selling

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Week

• I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Home
  • Values
  • Warrior

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Comedy
  • Stage
  • Show

• In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Nation
  • Become

• I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Education
  • Focus

• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Song

• There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

  

  William Cowper
  • Children
  • Evil
  • Exercise

• Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Trust

• To do de-Baathification without an agreed process of reconciliation threw tens of thousands of people out of their jobs, out of their homes, out of their future, and even robbed them of their position in society.

  

  David Petraeus
  • People
  • Future
  • Society

• Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Real
  • Curiosity

• The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Jesus