Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.
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Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
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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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When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.
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If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.
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Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.
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The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
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It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.
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If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me that is worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly.
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There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
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The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
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As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
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The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.
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The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.
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Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.