Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Oswald ChambersRead
Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Don't rigidly adhere to your own experiences; be open to others' paths.
This quote emphasizes the importance of flexibility in our beliefs and judgments about others. Oswald Chambers encourages us to avoid turning our personal experiences into strict rules or principles that we expect others to follow, suggesting instead that we should recognize the unique ways in which God inspires and guides each individual differently.
Themes
ExperiencePrincipleCreativityFaithOpen-Mindedness
In practice
Example use cases
In a workshop about leadership, one might say, 'As Oswald Chambers said, never make a principle out of your experience; let's consider each team member's unique journey.'
More from Oswald Chambers
All quotes βNever make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
Oswald ChambersRead
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.
Oswald ChambersRead
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.
Oswald ChambersRead
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
Oswald ChambersRead
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
Oswald ChambersRead
Similar quotes
Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.
Jack NicklausRead
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Carl JungRead
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius SyrusRead
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.
Isoroku YamamotoRead
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
Nikos KazantzakisRead
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
Virginia WoolfRead