Oswald Chambers - God Quotes

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

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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.

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Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

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God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

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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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All of God's people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.

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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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It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?

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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

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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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Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

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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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It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

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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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If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

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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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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God's purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

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Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

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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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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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True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else's place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God's place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

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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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Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his

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When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

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

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We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

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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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