Oswald Chambers Quotes About Temptation

Quotes about: Temptation

• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heartbreak, God, Disappointment

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

• The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Giving Up, Rights

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”, p.25, Gideon House Books

• Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Temptation, Cost, Earth

• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jobs, Prayer, Issues

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.88, Discovery House

• Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

  Oswald Chambers

  Cutting, Evil, Temptation

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

• We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Temptation, Vision

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

• The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

  Oswald Chambers

  Common Sense, Temptation, Ghost

• Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Temptation, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

• Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

  Oswald Chambers

  Temptation, Progress, Steps

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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