Oswald Chambers Quotes

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God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other than God's way; but the wonderful Spirit of God will remove confusion and enable us to see that the only means to obtain the experience of entire sanctification by faith is the grace of God.

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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

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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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Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.

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

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There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

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We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

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Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation... 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

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When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

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Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.

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Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

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There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get rid of the underlying idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience. Who of us could ever obey God to absolute perfection!

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Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

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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 matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.

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God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

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Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

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A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

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Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God's creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.

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See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

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Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'

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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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Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

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The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

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The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

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We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God's Word.

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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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