Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
OSWALD CHAMBERSPerseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWhen 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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSNever 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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSMeasure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
OSWALD CHAMBERSFretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
OSWALD CHAMBERSGod 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.
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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSA life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWe have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWe 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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSGod rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
OSWALD CHAMBERSGod places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
OSWALD CHAMBERSBeware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
OSWALD CHAMBERSOur 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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