"If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive……" — Oswald Chambers
"If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me."
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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
— John Adams
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
— Edmund Burke
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for…
— Giacomo Casanova
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
— Margaret Cavendish
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
— Oswald Chambers
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value…
— Chanakya
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
— Thomas Aquinas
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You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
— Emmet Fox
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
— Booker T. Washington
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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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