Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
OSWALD CHAMBERSIt is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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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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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
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When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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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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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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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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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.
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