Oswald Chambers quotes - page 2

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life... (Oswald Chambers)
We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring. View quote
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When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. View quote
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Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God. View quote
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Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God. View quote
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Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it. View quote
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. View quote
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Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be. (Oswald Chambers)
Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life: gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness, it should be rather an expression of breathless expectation. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, He packs our life with surprises all the time. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him. View quote
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The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. View quote
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It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes. View quote
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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. View quote
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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting. View quote
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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. View quote
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Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is. (Oswald Chambers)
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. View quote
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Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking. View quote
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. View quote
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One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. View quote
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