Oswald Chambers Quotes

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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• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• 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

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • City
  • California
  • Down

• I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Where
  • University
  • Professor

• I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Single

• Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• tt

  

  Larry Wall

• People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Nasty

• A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dream

• Ἔσω βλέπε· μηδενὸς πράγματος μήτε ἡ ἰδία ποιότης μήτε ἡ ἀξία παρατρεχέτω σε.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!

  

  Coventry Patmore

• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Job

• It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

  

  Sophocles
  • Speak
  • Wrong
  • Terrible

• Science is the systematic classification of experience.

  

  George Henry Lewes
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Classification

• Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • City

• As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

  

  John Gardner
  • Jesus
  • Thumbs

• 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.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Obey