Oswald Chambers Quotes
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When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
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To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.
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My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.
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Our true character comes out in the way we pray.
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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.
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The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.
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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 greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon.
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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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By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
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If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.
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Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.
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With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.
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We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.
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God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.
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The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.
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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.