Oswald Chambers Quotes

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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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Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

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When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic.
We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

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Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

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The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

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We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

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I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

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Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.

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If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

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God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

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Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

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Speak, Lord ; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, Speak, Lord.

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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

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The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we refused to be partakers, we hinder others from entering into the riches of God.

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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

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When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

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Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

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God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

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The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

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

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Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

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