Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
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Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.
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It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
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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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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.
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The love of God is not created- it is His nature.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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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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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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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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Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
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Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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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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Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.
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Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.
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If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.
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Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.