Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.
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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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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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We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.
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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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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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Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
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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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The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.
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Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.
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The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
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It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.
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What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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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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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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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 judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.
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We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.