Oswald Chambers Quotes

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of anybody else. He's a very fine rabbit; he's been constructed incredibly well, and he has a wardrobe of amazing clothing. He's arrogant, and he doesn't care whether Abilene loves him or not. As the journey progresses, as he gets passed from hand to hand, he learns what it means to love. He gets more and more bedraggled, and his clothing is lost; yet he becomes finer in soul and heart than he was at the beginning of the journey.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.

It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

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

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

We're in soul business here.

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.

That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

Who you become is determined by how you pray

When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

Its okay, Beth.I don't want my life to go back to the way it was before i met you.I thought i had it all,but really i was missing something. feel like a completely different person now.This might sound corny,but i feel like i've been asleep for a long time and you've just woken me up.

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.