If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirm...
OSWALD THEODORE AVERY 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 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 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 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...
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...
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 The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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 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 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 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 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 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 One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though ...
OSWALD SPENGLER 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 Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as s...
OSWALD SPENGLER 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 God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
OSWALD CHAMBERS See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible dram...
MILTON AVERY I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I ...
AVERY SAWYER At least the box is full of something useful. On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran
AVERY BROOKS The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
MILTON AVERY Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
AVERY BRUNDAGE I don't believe they made it in honest and good faith.
AVERY WALKER It may be a high number. That's why it's called bargaining.
AVERY WALKER My mom felt like I needed help, and I felt that way, too. I want to get better for the spring.
AVERY WALKER Pay issues can cost up to about $8 million a year and that would leave very little, if any, for ince...
AVERY WALKER Today's statement ups the odds that the Bank of Canada will be back again with a 25 bp (basis point)...
AVERY SHENFELD I place more emphasis on jobs numbers than on confidence surveys in estimating consumers' attitudes....
AVERY SHENFELD What counts, of course, is what the trend would have been absent hurricanes Katrina and Rita,
AVERY SHENFELD Looking only at 'affected areas' could understate the storm impacts, due to linkages between ports a...
AVERY SHENFELD We expect the combination of a U.S. growth moderation and the lagged impacts of a strong Canadian do...
AVERY SHENFELD The Bank of Canada remains on the warpath against inflation in an economy where recent job and produ...
AVERY SHENFELD Whenever you have a situation where inflation is not a material risk and the economy is underperform...
AVERY SHENFELD These confidence surveys are reflecting what people are reading -- that the economy is not creating ...
AVERY SHENFELD In Canada, CPI inflation will be everywhere in energy, and nowhere in anything else, mirroring what ...
AVERY SHENFELD In Canada, CPI inflation will be everywhere in energy, and nowhere in anything else, mirroring what ...
AVERY SHENFELD For Josh, it'll be a test for him coming back for the first game, especially against a really good d...
AVERY JOHNSON Our team is not playing enough of a 48-minute game and that's the disappointing thing. We know it's ...
AVERY JOHNSON We're on the radar now. There is no hiding.
AVERY JOHNSON What a great young player. You turn over No. 6, and there's Tony's No. 9. But he's better, he's quic...
AVERY JOHNSON Hopefully the next game. I'm hoping that if this were a playoff game, he'd be playing.
AVERY JOHNSON We kind of threw the first punch and kept on punching. We were fortunate enough to put together one ...
AVERY JOHNSON We were not very good for the first three-and-a-half quarters, but between the fourth quarter and ov...
AVERY JOHNSON Fifteen offensive rebounds...when did a Dallas team last do that. We put a lot of emphasis on that t...
AVERY JOHNSON They were the aggressors in the first half. We really didn't get off the bus. We've got some letharg...
AVERY JOHNSON We're not going to win a championship because some guy comes in and plays like Michael Jordan, ... W...
AVERY JOHNSON If they're helping defray his medical expenses, they're making sure he lives well past June,
AVERY GOLDSTEIN For the first time, I hear more and more Chinese say in open forums that they understand China will ...
AVERY GOLDSTEIN