Oswald Chambers Quotes
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It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
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If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.
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When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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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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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 peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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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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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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A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.
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It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
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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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The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having - viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.
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Don't read to remember; read to realize.
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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.
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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.