Oswald Chambers Quotes

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.