Oswald Chambers Quotes
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God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.
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The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.
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To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.
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It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.
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God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
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Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
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Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.
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Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.
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God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.
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The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
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What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.
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Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?
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Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
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A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.
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We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.
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There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.
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Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.