Oswald Chambers Quotes

If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.

I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.

What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability.

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.

Faith and service to others were pillars in Rev. DeBose's life. I knew him as a very kind person and an outstanding public servant.

The 'Rule of St. Benedict' makes it possible for ordinary folk to live lives of quite extraordinary value. The weak have a place to do their best.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.

A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

By helping others come unto Him, you will find that you have come unto Him yourself

Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.