Oswald Chambers Quotes

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Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

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Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

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The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'

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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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When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

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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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Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

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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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You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.

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If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

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Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.

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When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

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Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.

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The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

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The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics. God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.

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

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Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

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I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put;
consequently, we take root nowhere.

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Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God's appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

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God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

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When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

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It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us go.

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There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

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I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

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If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.

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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

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God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.

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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

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God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.

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