Oswald Chambers Quotes
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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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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 real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.
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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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The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.
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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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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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God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
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Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”
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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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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
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We are here for God's designs, not for our own.
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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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We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.
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Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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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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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 test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
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The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.
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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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When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
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No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.