Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.
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Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
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Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
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Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.
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The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we refused to be partakers, we hinder others from entering into the riches of God.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.
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The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.
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God wants to use us as He used His own Son
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The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.
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If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
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When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
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Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.
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If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
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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 measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
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The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.
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The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.
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The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
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The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.
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An unguarded strength is a double weakness.
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The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.
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Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
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God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.
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We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
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