Oswald Chambers - God Quotes

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

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God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His
call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To
serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the
call of God.

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When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

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We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were foolish enough to trust God's wisdom and His supernatural equipment.

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We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

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If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.

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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

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When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

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We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

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It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

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The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

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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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We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.

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Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?

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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

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When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

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

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A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

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If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle... we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

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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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The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

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

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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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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

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