Oswald Chambers Quotes
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
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Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".
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The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.
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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.
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The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'
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Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty.
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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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Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.
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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.
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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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When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
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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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Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of the glory of the vision we go forth to do things, but the vision is not real in us yet; and God has to take us into the valley, and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the place where He can trust us.... Let Him put you on His wheel and whirl you as He likes, and as sure as God is God and you are you, you will turn out exactly in accordance with the vision. Don't lose heart in the process.
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To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.
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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
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Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.
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God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
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The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
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But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.