Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.
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Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
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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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Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
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We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
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Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
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We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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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...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
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The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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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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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
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Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
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God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
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There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.
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Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.
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Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.