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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSSolitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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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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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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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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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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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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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 dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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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 battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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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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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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