Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Oswald ChambersRead
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.
Interpretation
This quote encourages individuals to incorporate their spirituality into all aspects of their lives.
Oswald Chambers emphasizes the importance of forming a constant practice of engaging with God in every situation. This reflects a philosophy where one's spiritual beliefs influence daily decisions and actions, promoting a holistic approach to life that intertwines faith with everyday experiences.
In practice
In a motivational speech about integrating spirituality into personal development.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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