Oswald Chambers Quotes

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As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

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If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

Oswald Chambers
It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.

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The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

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If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.

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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

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Some of the qualities of # God must
be merged into us before our
# prayers can be fit for His
acceptance.

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When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

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Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

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Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

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The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

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Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

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Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

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Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

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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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We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

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The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

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We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

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The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

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Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?

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One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

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Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

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There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

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We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

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We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

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The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics. God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.

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The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

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