Oswald Chambers Quotes - Page 12

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• God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

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  Earthquakes, Stubbornness, Come Up

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• 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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  Jesus, Men, People

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.191, Discovery House

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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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  Prayer, Silence, Grace

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.45, Discovery House

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• Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.15, Discovery House

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• We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

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  Struggle, Helping Others, Thinking

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

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• The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

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  Stars, People, Heaven

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.200, Discovery House

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• If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

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  Crystals, Alive, Should

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.101, Discovery House

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• Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

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  Giving, Way, Delightful

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.228, Discovery House

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• God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

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  Encouragement, Religious, Blessing

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• Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

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  Years, Hours, Modern

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• Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

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  God, Faith, Spiritual

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.106, Discovery House

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• To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

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  Jesus, Mean, Christ

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.705, Discovery House

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• Many of us refuse to grow where we are put;
  consequently, we take root nowhere.

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  Roots, Grows, Refuse

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.501, Discovery House

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• 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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  Christian, Jesus, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.42, Discovery House

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• I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

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  Perfect, Purpose, Use

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.693, Discovery House

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• God saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not contribute to our happiness, but all can be made to contribute to our holiness. Vance Havner
  The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.

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  Men, Saint, Holiness

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• If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

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  Religious, Jesus, Real

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.188, Discovery House

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• When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.

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  Faces, Spirit, Truth Is

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.270, Discovery House

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• There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Heart, Lasts

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.351, Discovery House

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• The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment , and tribulation for only one reason--these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

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  Jesus, Passion, Reality

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

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  Ordinary, Valleys, Stuff

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.493, Discovery House

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• Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

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  Rooms, States, Constant

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.11, Discovery House

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• Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

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  Joy, Purpose, Born Again

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

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  Faith, Mean, Knowing

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.33, Discovery House

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• It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

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  Mistake, Inspiration, Panic

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.324, Discovery House

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