Oswald Chambers Quotes

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

You are the sum total of your choices.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

A man really determines himself by what he does.