Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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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 you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.
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In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.
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Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
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Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.
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Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.
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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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The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.
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If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
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If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment. Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.
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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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Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
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No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.