Oswald Chambers Quotes

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God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other than God's way; but the wonderful Spirit of God will remove confusion and enable us to see that the only means to obtain the experience of entire sanctification by faith is the grace of God.

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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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In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.

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Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

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By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

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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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The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.

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Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.

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If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.

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The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

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When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.

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

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You do not know what you are going to do,the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder-you do not know what God is going to do next.

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Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

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Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

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The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

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Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

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The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

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Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

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The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

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Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

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We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.

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In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.

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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

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The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'

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Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

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The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

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If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

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If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

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It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

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