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Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United States by the grace of my son's action.


Marguerite Oswald

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OSWALD CHAMBERS We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city ...
OSWALD SPENGLER In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collectin...
OSWALD SPENGLER Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
OSWALD CHAMBERS Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time...
OSWALD CHAMBERS I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal sta...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise,...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The g...
OSWALD CHAMBERS If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well with...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
OSWALD CHAMBERS When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.
OSWALD CHAMBERS A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this a...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s wor...
OSWALD CHAMBERS A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
OSWALD MOSLEY The resilience of Western economies to recent oil shocks has been remarkable.
ANDREW OSWALD Political feelings are much less independently chosen than people realize. Children mold their paren...
ANDREW OSWALD What you have in the bank, according to the data, does not matter all that much. What really matters...
ANDREW OSWALD We thought we'd see some income effects.
ANDREW OSWALD Recent research suggests that regularly seeing good friends in the local park will bring a greater b...
ANDREW OSWALD Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting wor...
ALICE OSWALD If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or co...
ALICE OSWALD One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable bl...
ALICE OSWALD A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the t...
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