“One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.”

— Oswald Chambers

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God." by Oswald Chambers?

Oswald Chambers photo

Oswald Chambers 43

British missionary 1874–1917

Related quotes

“Do the best you can, without straining yourself too much and too continuously, and leave the rest to God.”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.
Do the best you can, without straining yourself too much and too continuously, and leave the rest to God. If you strain yourself too much you'll have to ask God to patch you up. And for all you know, patching you up may take time that it was planned to use some other way.
BUT... overstrain yourself now and then. For this reason: The things you create easily and joyously will not continue to come easily and joyously unless you yourself are getting bigger all the time. And when you overstrain yourself you are assisting in the creation of a new self — if you get what we mean.

“The heart has a resiliency. Strained to breaking, it can contract again. Even the waiting women, Iseult and Penelope, learned, as they sat sorrowing and watching, to sing to the swing of the sea.”

Fannie Hurst (1889–1968) novelist

Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“Life is a strain many times; if you do not know how to play it well, you've lost before you started.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Molte volte la vita mette a dura prova; se non sai giocartela bene, hai perso prima di iniziare.
Source: prevale.net

“My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Self-Reliance

“There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to compromising. As you get bigger, you have your own way. But in a partnership you always have to compromise. … When you get into a partnership, you're not the boss. There's no boss. That makes it hard.”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

Interview with Jon Landau for Rolling Stone (1972); republished in The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 (1989) edited by Peter Herbst, p. 211

“She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.”

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary

Source: The Rum Diary

“This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks,
Cut stems struggling to put down feet,
What saint strained so much,
Rose on such lopped limbs to a new life?”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

"Cuttings (later)," ll. 1-4
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)

“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

Related topics