Oswald Chambers Quotes - Page 27

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• 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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  Temptation, Progress, Steps

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

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• I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.

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  Faith, Heart, Giving

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “God's Workmanship”, p.61, Discovery House

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• If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

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  Soul, Way, Clear

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.37, Discovery House

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• We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

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  Delight, Spirit, Imagine

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.69, Discovery House

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• 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.

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  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

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• As Christians we are not out for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause. We do not know what God is after, but we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.

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  Christian, Causes, Our Relationship

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.29, Discovery House

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• God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

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  Wine, Broken, Bread

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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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.

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  Not Good Enough, Enemy, Faith In God

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.62, Discovery House

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• Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

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  Determination, Reality, Lord

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.422, Discovery House

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• 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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  Self, Ions, Care

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• The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

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  Doe, Saint, Usefulness

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.496, Discovery House

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• Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

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  Mutiny, Sin, Dies

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.368, Discovery House

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• When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

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  Giving, Vision, Cost

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.183, Discovery House

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• 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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  Real, People, Shadow

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.113, Discovery House

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• 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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  Prayer, Personality, Essentials

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.34, Discovery House

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• The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time.
  God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

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  Real, Opportunity, Views

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

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• Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.

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  Blessing, Giving, God Blessing

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.23, Discovery House

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• The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

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  Identity, Rich, Possession

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Approved Unto God / Facing Reality”, p.26, Discovery House

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• The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Way

  "Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life".

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• Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

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  Christian, Saint, Should

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.54, Discovery House

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• It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

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  Perfect, Purpose, Want

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.692, Discovery House

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• The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

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  Gold, Weight, Worth It

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.64, Discovery House

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• If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

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  Teacher, Jesus, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”, p.5, Gideon House Books

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• Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

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  Prayer, Silence, Bigger

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.46, Discovery House

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