Oswald Chambers Quotes

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The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.

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There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.

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A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!

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Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

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Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

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Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

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Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

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Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.

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All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

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The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

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The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.

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God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

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When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

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Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?

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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

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Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

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If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.

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Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

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

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If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything to the Lord, other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.

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

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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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If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

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So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those who do not know God, it is madness to trust Him, but when we pray in the Holy Spirit we begin to realize the resources of God, that He is our perfect heavenly Father, and we are His children.

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When a man's heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.

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What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

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