God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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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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When 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.
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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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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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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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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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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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Trust God, and do the next thing.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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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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I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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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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Don’t read to remember; read to realize.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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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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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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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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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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