"Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if……" — Oswald Chambers
"Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints."
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Oswald Chambers
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588 Quotes by Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers has 588 quotes on this site.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on…
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of…
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not…
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me…
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce…
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More Bloodless Quotes
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
— Virginia Woolf
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Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act…
— Sting
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Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what…
— Tom Peters
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No adultery is bloodless.
— Natalia Ginzburg
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All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least…
— Matt Taibbi
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One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology…
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
— Will Durant
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If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with…
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers…
— Alexander Pope
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For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself…
— Aimee Mann
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Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.
— Dick Schaap
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