Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
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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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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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'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.
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We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.
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God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.
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Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.
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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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When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
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When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
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The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
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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 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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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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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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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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Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.
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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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Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.