Oswald Chambers Quotes
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We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
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Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.
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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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Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.
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And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
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When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
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The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
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When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
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When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.
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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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If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior.
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I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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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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It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.
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One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.
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Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
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In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.
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As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.
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Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.
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When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
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The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.