Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.
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It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.
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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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God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
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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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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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If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
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We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
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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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If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.
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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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Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.
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When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
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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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Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.
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The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.
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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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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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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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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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A river reaches places its source never knows.
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One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.
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So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.
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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.