Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.
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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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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.
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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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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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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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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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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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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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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.
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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 have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not...What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
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When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.
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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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When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
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Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
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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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Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.
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God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
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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?