Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
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Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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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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Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
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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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The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.
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When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
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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 call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call 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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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 I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.
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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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Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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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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God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.