Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWe pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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.
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Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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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.
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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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