To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
OSWALD CHAMBERSIt 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.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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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.
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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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