Oswald Chambers Quotes

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

You don't have to give up to let go

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

Until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.