Oswald Chambers Quotes

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

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Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

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Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

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We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

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The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

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We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

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A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

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We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

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God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.

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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

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We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

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When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

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There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.

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It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

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One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

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All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

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Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

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We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were foolish enough to trust God's wisdom and His supernatural equipment.

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