Oswald Chambers Quotes

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

All actual life is encounter.

Once you've said it, you can't put it back. So choose your words carefully in heated moments in personal relationships. Anything you say, people have feelings. If you're thinking something, you keep thinking it and it just sort of slides out, it's gonna happen.

I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don't think the derogatory ''managed relationships''. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can't be money, and it should not be money.

One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

Connect with all the passions people have - for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.