Oswald Chambers Quotes

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

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

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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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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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Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, I will remain true to God's character whatever He may do. The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him (Job 13:15).

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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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The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.

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The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

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Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

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What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

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The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

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Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

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The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

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Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

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Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

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Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

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Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.

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Never run away with the idea that it doesn't matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.

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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ...

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Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.

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Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

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We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

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