No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
OSWALD CHAMBERSBeware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.
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Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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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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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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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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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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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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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.
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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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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
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