A Quote by Oswald Chambers

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Oswald Chambers

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Become Been Grapes Only Squeezed Wine

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Oswald Chambers
Scottish - Theologian
July 24, 1874 - November 15, 1917

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

Oswald Chambers

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

MF Grimm

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Henri Nouwen

Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke.

Jack LaLanne

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Jeanette Winterson

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

Originally developed in Germany in the 18th Century, ice wine is made from grapes that have been left on the vines until deep winter when the fruits, frozen by ice, contain more concentrated sugar. Only then are they are harvested, sometimes at night.

Carol Drinkwater

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

Janis Joplin

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.