Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.


Oswald Mosley

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It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally ...
ALICE OSWALD
A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates...
ALICE OSWALD
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about...
ALICE OSWALD
If you are not right with God, you can never turn your mind anywhere but on yourself.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain an...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaki...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us t...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it...
ALICE OSWALD
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldi...
ALICE OSWALD
I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I did...
TOM OSWALD
There have been some changes but mainly regarding the outside and aesthetics of the aquatic centre, ...
DENIS OSWALD
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" Th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means s...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is n...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scient...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exc...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do n...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Are you loyal to Jesus or loyal to your notion of Him?
OSWALD CHAMBERS
The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the reade...
OSWALD SPENGLER
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray wh...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually...Beware of the danger of relaxation spiritually.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspir...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Holy Saturday When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; o...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.".
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Where would you be if God took away al...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit i...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any mo...
OSWALD SPENGLER
You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a d...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS