Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.
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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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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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A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.
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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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Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.
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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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In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength.
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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.
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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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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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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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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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Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.
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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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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 thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.