No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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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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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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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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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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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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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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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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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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