Oswald Chambers Quotes

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

Human life is too difficult for people.

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity...

Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.

The process of really changing your skin is painful and difficult and endless. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.

Entering politics would be like donning a crown of thorns.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.