We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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Don’t read to remember; read to realize.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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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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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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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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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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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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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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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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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 is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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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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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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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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Trust God, and do the next thing.
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Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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