Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.
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Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
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Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
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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.
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Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.
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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.
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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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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.
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Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.
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Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
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The good is always the enemy of the best.
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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
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Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
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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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A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
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God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
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We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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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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Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.