Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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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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God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
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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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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.
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Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.
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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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The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.
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A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
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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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The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.
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Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
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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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Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.
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The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.
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God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.
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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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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
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When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.