Oswald Chambers Quotes

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Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

Oswald Chambers
The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

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We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.

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

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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

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

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

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It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.

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Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, Oh well, sin doesn't matter much ?

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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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Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

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When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.

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Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

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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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Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

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If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

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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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People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.

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The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

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The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.

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The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

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We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

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It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed...

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I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Oswald Chambers