Oswald Chambers Quotes

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If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

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

Oswald Chambers
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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God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

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There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.

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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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Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

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If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.

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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

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The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

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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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To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

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You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

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If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

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God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

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The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

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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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Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.

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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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Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

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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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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.

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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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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

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