Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.
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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 purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
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God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.
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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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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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God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
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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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All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.
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What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.
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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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The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.
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The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
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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.
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A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
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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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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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God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
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If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.
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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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Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.
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Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.