For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
OSWALD CHAMBERSFor understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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 CHAMBERSFretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
OSWALD CHAMBERSFaith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWhen we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
OSWALD CHAMBERSIf 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.
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 CHAMBERSWhen you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
OSWALD CHAMBERSNo healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe 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 CHAMBERSWe pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
OSWALD CHAMBERSBeware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
OSWALD CHAMBERSNever take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
OSWALD CHAMBERSDon’t read to remember; read to realize.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWe 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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