Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
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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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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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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 greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
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Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
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Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.
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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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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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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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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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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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If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.
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God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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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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The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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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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It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
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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.