Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.
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Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
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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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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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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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Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
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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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If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.
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Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.
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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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Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
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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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Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
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Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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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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God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.
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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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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.