Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
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If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.
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Don't read to remember; read to realize.
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
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When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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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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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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You do not know what you are going to do,the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder-you do not know what God is going to do next.
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It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
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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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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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Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
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If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
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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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Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.
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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 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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If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
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God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.