Oswald Chambers Quotes

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

We are what we seem to be.

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

We are what we think.

We pass for what we are.

What we think, we become.

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

I am truth. I was made of truth.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.

We are what our thoughts have made us

You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

You are what you think you are.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Identity is invariably false to facts.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.