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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than al...
OSWALD SPENGLER

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of mo...
OSWALD SPENGLER

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
OSWALD SPENGLER

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the reade...
OSWALD SPENGLER

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, d...
OSWALD SPENGLER

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

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
OSWALD SPENGLER

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to ...
OSWALD SPENGLER

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the reade...
OSWALD SPENGLER

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any mo...
OSWALD SPENGLER

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes
OSWALD SPENGLER

I maintain that today many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher t...
OSWALD SPENGLER

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though ...
OSWALD SPENGLER

Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as s...
OSWALD SPENGLER

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, ...
OSWALD MOSLEY

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are mar...
OSWALD MOSLEY

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep e...
OSWALD MOSLEY

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the insid...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
OSWALD CHAMBERS

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in t...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I can...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i...
ALICE OSWALD

The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ...
ALICE OSWALD

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get o...
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

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...
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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 ...
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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...
ALICE OSWALD

Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of...
ALICE OSWALD

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference betw...
ALICE OSWALD

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no m...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us,...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who know...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry...
ALICE OSWALD

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making...
ALICE OSWALD

At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a ...
ALICE OSWALD

There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the v...
ALICE OSWALD

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

Newspapers are not made any longer by news or journalism. They are made by sheer weight of money exp...
OSWALD MOSLEY

The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over thei...
OSWALD MOSLEY

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

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 Gods work...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually...Beware of the danger of relaxation spiritually.
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I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of...
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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.
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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. ...
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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...
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If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit i...
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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

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect co...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does throu...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor...
JAMES OSWALD

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne a...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is secon...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurr...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, mo...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The call of God is not the echo of my nature; my affinities and personal temperament are not conside...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

At the foundation of Jesus Christ’s kingdom is the genuine loveliness of those who are commonplace...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child’s box of bricks; they expl...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number o...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7

Beware of the pleasan...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hea...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in ...
ALICE OSWALD

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
ALICE OSWALD

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified.
OSWALD CHAMBERS From what Natalie could observe, by middle age, every person's life had rolled some distance downhil...
DEBRA OSWALD As I can see and hear, there might be more support for softball.
DENIS OSWALD Apparently there was some confusion at the time of the vote. It was so close that possibly a new vot...
DENIS OSWALD We will support them in their initiatives and help them to find the way, but now it's up to them to ...
DENIS OSWALD Every venue should be ready before the Games, leaving us enough time -- even if it's little time -- ...
DENIS OSWALD As long as they can still compensate with work on Saturdays and Sundays I think it won't be a proble...
DENIS OSWALD According to the world code, that laboratory should have ensured the anonymity of the samples used i...
DENIS OSWALD Preparing for the Games requires a team effort: the group named today as Coordination Commission can...
DENIS OSWALD The situation in Greece was very specific, very political, which explained what happened. We tried t...
DENIS OSWALD I don't see any risk. There is too much at stake, the image of the country is at stake, and really I...
DENIS OSWALD It's boding well for the future.
DICK OSWALD There are people I know that just lie spellbound on the ice looking down the hole. One fellow gets o...
DICK OSWALD The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
MARINA OSWALD

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
ALICE OSWALD If you want to make a difference, think different
PALLE OSWALD

Tell God you are ready to be poured out as an offering, and God will prove Himself to be all you eve...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which gove...
OSWALD MOSLEY

When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose f...
OSWALD MOSLEY

Since the war I have stressed altogether five main objectives. The true union of Europe; the union o...
OSWALD MOSLEY

God does not give us overcoming life— He gives us life as we overcome.
OSWALD CHAMBERS This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United Sta...
MARGUERITE OSWALD Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.
MARINA OSWALD

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right wi...
OSWALD CHAMBERS

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

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