Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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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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If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
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It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.
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Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.
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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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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 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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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
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We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'
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When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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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 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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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.
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We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His 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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Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.
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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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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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Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.
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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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We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.