Oswald Chambers Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

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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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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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