Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
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Our true character comes out in the way we pray.
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When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.
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Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.
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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
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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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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
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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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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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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......Hav e you been asking what God is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do. He reveals to you who he is.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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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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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
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When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.
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Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.
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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
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A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.