Oswald Chambers Quotes

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The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

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It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.

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People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

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You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.

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To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

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Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, I will remain true to God's character whatever He may do. The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him (Job 13:15).

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Never run away with the idea that it doesn't matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.

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Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.

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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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Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

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Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

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The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

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Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

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The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

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What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

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Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

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The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

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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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The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

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We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.

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We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

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There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

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When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.

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Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.

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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

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