Oswald Chambers Quotes

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

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• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Hurt
  • Operation
  • Judaism

• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Lost
  • Suffering

• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
  • Process
  • Legislative

• I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Devil

• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Today
  • Death
  • Reading

• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • California
  • San Francisco

• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • You
  • Feel
  • Wrinkles

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Nice
  • Couple

• In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Reality
  • Intelligence

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

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

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Choices

• Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • God
  • Mercy

• I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • God
  • Faith
  • Know

• Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

  

  John Nelson Darby
  • God
  • Children
  • Words

• I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • God
  • Preacher
  • Hangman

• Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Watch