Oswald Chambers Quotes

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
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Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl.
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My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
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If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.