Oswald Chambers Quotes
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
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Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
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Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.
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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
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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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Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.
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Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
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Are you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you should wait until you can clearly see how to do what He has asked? Simply obey Him with unrestrained joy. When He tells you something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a misunderstanding of what honors Him and what doesn't. Are you faithful to Jesus, or faithful to your ideas about Him?
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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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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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The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.
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The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
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All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.
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When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
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The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This is the outcome of allowing Jesus to satisfy every area of life to its depth. The picture resulting from such a life is that of the strong, calm balance that our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.
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Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.