Oswald Chambers Quotes

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

Oswald Chambers

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• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

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• The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

  

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• Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

  

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• Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

  

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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.

  

  N. T. Wright
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• I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Work
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• I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Believe
  • Hard
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• I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

  

  Barbara Mertz
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• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  

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• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
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• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
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  • Box

• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Trying
  • War
  • Autumn

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
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• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
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• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
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  • Thing
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• It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.

  

  Kevin Powers
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• Every year, I think you earn the right to eat cake on your birthday.

  

  Bret Hart
  • I Think
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• And death was a soft thing, soft and black, cool and sweet and gracious. He slipped into it as a swimmer slips into the surf and it closed over him and held him and he felt the pulse and beat of it and knew the vastness and sureness of it.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Death
  • Black
  • Cool

• I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

  

  John Eldredge
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Passion

• More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Different
  • Song
  • Perfect

• The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Spirit