The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
OSWALD CHAMBERSIf through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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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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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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Trust God, and do the next thing.
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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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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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God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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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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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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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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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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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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Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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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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We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
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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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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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