Oswald Chambers Quotes

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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

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As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness. But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

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Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.

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We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people, and never get out of touch with human beings, if we are going to use the word of God skilfully amongst them.

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Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation... 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

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When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.

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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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See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

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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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Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God's creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

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A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

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Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

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God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

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No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.

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If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

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Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

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There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get rid of the underlying idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience. Who of us could ever obey God to absolute perfection!

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Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

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Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.

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When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

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Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.

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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 places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

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Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

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Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

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Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.

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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ...

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We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God's purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

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Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

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