Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.
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There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
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When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.
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The love of God is not created- it is His nature.
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God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
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Never try to help God fulfill His word.
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Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
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It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.