Oswald Chambers Quotes

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.

I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves.