Oswald Chambers Quotes

We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul being given choice, may exercise it in whatever direction it chooses, for it learns just as well by its mistakes as by right action in the first place, perhaps even better.

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.