God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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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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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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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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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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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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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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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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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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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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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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Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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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 root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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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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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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