Top 100 Oswald Chambers Quotes
#1. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered ... Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
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#2. 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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#3. But "common sense is not faith," Oswald Chambers had written, "and faith is not common sense.
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#4. The thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin." - Oswald Chambers
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#5. We look for visions of heaven," Oswald Chambers had written, "and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us." He
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#6. The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. - Oswald Chambers L
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#7. You have to be the nourishment for other people's souls until they learn to feed on God. Oswald Chambers
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#8. My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Oswald Chambers
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#9. Oswald Chambers says, Intellectual darkness comes through ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey.
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#10. The only possible way to have full understanding of the teachings of Jesus is through the light of the Spirit of God shining inside us.
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#11. The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.
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#12. The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L
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#13. To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.
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#14. At any cost, by any road means nothing self-chosen in the way God brings us to the goal.
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#15. God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
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#16. Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
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#17. Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
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#18. Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them.
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#19. 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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#20. Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.
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#21. Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me. . .
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#22. We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.
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#23. 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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#25. The moral miracle of Redemption is that God can put into me a new disposition whereby I can live a totally new life.
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#26. We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. 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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#27. You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
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#28. The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
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#29. In the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart ... It's motto is
" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.
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#30. Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
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#31. 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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#32. It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
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#33. The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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#34. Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
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#35. The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
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#36. Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.
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#37. Do you believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Are you willing to let Him?
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#38. If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. Death means you stop being. You must agree with God and stop being the intensely striving kind of Christian you have been. We avoid the cemetery and continually refuse our own death. It will not happen by striving, but by yielding to death.
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#42. Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
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#43. The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
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#44. For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him
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#45. God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.
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#46. Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already ... this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
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#47. If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified.
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#48. Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'
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#49. By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.
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#50. When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
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#51. Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
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#52. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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#53. Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight.
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#54. Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.
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#55. The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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#56. Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
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#57. The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
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#58. Do not forecast where the temptation will come; it is the least likely thing that is the peril. In the aftermath of a great spiritual transaction the "retired sphere of the leasts" begins to tell; it is not dominant, but remember it is there, and if you are not warned, it will trip you up.
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#59. To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God's interests in other people. That ye love one another; as I have loved you ...
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#60. The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Him.
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#61. When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.
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#62. 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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#63. Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
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#64. Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are - you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.
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#65. Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
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#66. A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.
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#67. It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
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#68. Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.
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#69. 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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#70. Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ;
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#71. Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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#72. We talk as if living a sanctified life were the most uncertain and insecure thing we could do. Yet it is the most secure thing possible, because it has Almighty God in and behind it. The most dangerous and unsure thing is to try to live without God.
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#74. Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
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#75. Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.
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#76. At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself
the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
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#77. As Christians we are not here for our own purpose at all - we are here for the purpose of God, and the two are not the same.
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#78. God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.
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#79. The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
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#81. We are half mechanical [physical] and half mysterious [spiritual]; to live in either domain and ignore the other is to be fools or fanatics ... We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical realm what God WORK IN in the mysterious realm.
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#82. 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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#83. Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
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#84. If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the breathing continues - we are not conscious of it but it is always going on.
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#85. God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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#86. If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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#87. Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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#88. The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him.
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#89. The resounding evidence of the Holy Spirit in a person's life is the unmistakable family likeness to Jesus Christ, and the freedom from everything which is not like Him. Are
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#90. Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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#91. Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.
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#92. If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
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#93. Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
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#94. When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us--He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there.
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#95. We are inclined to think that everything that happens is to be turned into useful teaching. In actual fact, it is to be turned into something even better than teaching, namely, character. The mountaintop is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something.
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#96. Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.
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#97. How much kindness have I shown Him in the past week? Has my life been a good reflection on His reputation? God is saying
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#98. If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.
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#99. When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
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#100. 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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