Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
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To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
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People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.
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The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.
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Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
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The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.
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Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.
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Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.
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Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
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When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
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Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
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Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.
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To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
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We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
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Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.
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God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other than God's way; but the wonderful Spirit of God will remove confusion and enable us to see that the only means to obtain the experience of entire sanctification by faith is the grace of God.