Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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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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There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.
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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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Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.
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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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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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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
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Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
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Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
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in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.
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Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
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Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
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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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We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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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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Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
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The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility
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The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.