Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
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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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The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
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Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.
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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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Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.
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Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.
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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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Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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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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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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Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
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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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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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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.
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A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
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The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This is the outcome of allowing Jesus to satisfy every area of life to its depth. The picture resulting from such a life is that of the strong, calm balance that our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.
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The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.
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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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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.
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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.