Oswald Chambers Quotes

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

Oswald Chambers

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• In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Art
  • Want
  • Know

• You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Think
  • Yourself

• I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Swear
  • Republic
  • Sudan

• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Wish
  • Paint
  • I Wish

• I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Music
  • Live
  • Career

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Real
  • Find
  • Gone

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Years

• I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Goodness

• Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Politics
  • Annoyance

• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• 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
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• Possible controversy for the Obama campaign. Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud, because some of the people they've registered sound like they have fake names. Apparently, the fakest-sounding name is Barack Obama.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Name
  • Fake

• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Money
  • Personal
  • Manners

• Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Faith

• When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Faith
  • Conflict
  • Personal