Oswald Chambers Quotes

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God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

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There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

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Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

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Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, Oh well, sin doesn't matter much ?

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Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

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There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.

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It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don't agree with us.

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Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, each one of us is a mystery. There is only One Who understands you, and that is God. Hand yourself over to Him.

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If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

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

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The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

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Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

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We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

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If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone's head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

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When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

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There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

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The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him...

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We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

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Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.

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Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

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If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

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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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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.

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It is not repentance that saves me;
repentance is the sign that I realize what God has done in Christ Jesus.

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Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all

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Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

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The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

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Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

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