Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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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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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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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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Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
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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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You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
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Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.
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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 will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.
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We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
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We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
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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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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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The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
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God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.
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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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The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
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Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
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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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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.