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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThere is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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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 battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
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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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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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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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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with 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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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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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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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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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.
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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
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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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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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