Top 100 Oswald Chambers Quotes
#1. Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
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#2. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not ... What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.
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#3. Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
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#4. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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#5. Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him. If you ask advice, you will almost always side with Satan. " ... I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood ... " (Galatians 1:16).
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#6. In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculations. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up in Him.
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#7. Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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#8. Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.
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#9. Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
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#10. Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
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#11. All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.
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#12. Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.
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#13. Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
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#14. Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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#15. Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
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#16. Holiness is the remaking of our inward and hidden desires and affections, when the Holy Spirit of God dwells in our mortal bodies.
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#17. Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.
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#18. We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.
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#19. To do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us. Oswald Chambers
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#20. It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet.
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#22. We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.
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#23. Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
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#24. Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?
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#25. The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
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#26. If you believe in Jesus, you will find that God has nourished in you mighty torrents of blessing for others.
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#27. God came as a baby, giving and entrusting Himself to me. He expects my personal life to be a "Bethlehem." Am I allowing my natural life to be slowly transformed by the indwelling life of the Son of God? God's ultimate purpose is that His Son might be exhibited in me.
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#28. The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh
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#29. Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.
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#30. The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.
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#31. In our mental outlook we have to reconcile ourselves to the fact of sin as the only explanation as to why Jesus Christ came, and the explanation of the grief and sorrow in life.
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#32. 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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#33. Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ which nothing can shake.
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#34. We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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#35. Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
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#36. Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
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#37. It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.
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#38. Yet Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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#39. If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.
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#40. Getting into God's stride means nothing less than oneness with Him. It takes a long time to get there, but keep at it. Don't give up because the pain is intense right now - get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose.
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#41. One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.
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#42. The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we refused to be partakers, we hinder others from entering into the riches of God.
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#43. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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#44. A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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#45. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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#46. The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.
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#49. The one thing that matters is whether a man will accept the God Who will make him holy. At all costs a man must be rightly related to God.
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#50. It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
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#51. The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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#53. 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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#54. There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.
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#55. Never sympathize with the thing that is stabbing God all the time. God has to hurt the thing that must go.
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#56. We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.
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#58. Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.
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#59. Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
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#60. 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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#61. We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
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#62. Do you realize that after eminent success in God's work, there is more need for prayer than when we are at the foothills of a struggle for survival? The moments of victory and success are more dangerous than moments of darkness and depression.
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#63. God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.
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#64. 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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#65. It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
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#66. We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
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#67. It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
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#68. 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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#69. Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.
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#70. Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.
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#71. Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.
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#72. If what we call love doesn't take us beyond ourselves, it is not really love.
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#73. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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#74. Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.
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#75. The most devout among us become atheistic in this connection; we do not believe God, we enthrone common sense and tack the name of God on to it. We do lean to our own understanding, instead of trusting God with all our hearts.
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#76. The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.
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#77. Warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22).
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#78. My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.
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#79. Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him.
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#80. Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?
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#82. We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.
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#83. We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
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#84. The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.
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#85. The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
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#86. Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.
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#87. When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.
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#88. The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.
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#89. The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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#90. The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.
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#91. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world.
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#92. I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
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#93. THE STAGGERING QUESTION "He said to me, 'Son of man, can these bones live?'" Ezekiel 37:3 Can a sinner be turned into a saint? Can a twisted life be made right? There is only one appropriate answer - "O Lord God, You know" (37:3).
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#94. If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?
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#95. Quit praying about yourself and be spent for others as the bondslave of Jesus. That is the meaning of being made broken bread and poured-out wine in reality.
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#96. Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says.
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#98. It is at the risk of our own soul's welfare that we get caught up in practical busy-work,
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#99. If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a storm and send you out.
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#100. Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
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