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• Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

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  Mean, Reality, Sincerity

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”, p.27, Gideon House Books

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• Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

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  Mistake, Mean, Self

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

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  Men, Doe, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.73, Discovery House

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• Never run away with the idea that it doesn't matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.

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  Running, Believe, Divorce

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.29, Discovery House

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• Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

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  Father, Broken, Watches

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Not Knowing Whither: The Steps of Abraham's Faith”, p.89, Discovery House

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• Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

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  Christian, Jesus, People

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.478, Discovery House

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• We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

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  Prayer, Mean, Asking

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• Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

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  Spiritual, Giving, Lust

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.94, Discovery House

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• When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

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  Prayer, Reality, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

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• The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

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  God, Real, Common Sense

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Highest Good / The Pilgrim's Song Book / Thy Great Redemption”, p.37, Discovery House

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• A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

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  Book, Reading, Men

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• Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.

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  Teaching, Son, Men

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• It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

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  Character, Trying, Arguing

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.464, Discovery House

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• Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

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  Use

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.139, Discovery House

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• It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

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  Mastery, Imagine, Spite

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.56, Discovery House

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• Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

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  Jesus, Real, Wine

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, God

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Shade of His Hand: Talks on the Book of Ecclesiastes”, p.82, Discovery House

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• God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

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  Training, Missionary, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

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  Prayer, Spirit, Holy

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.100, Discovery House

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• Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.

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  Lord, Social, Aspect

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.67, Discovery House

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• Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'

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  Jesus, Hands, Christ

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• We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.

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  People, Use, Theory

  "Devotions for a Deeper Life: A Daily Devotional".

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• Prayer is an effort of will.

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  Prayer, Effort

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.107, Discovery House

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• If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

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  Jesus, Abandoned, Ends

  Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”

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• Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

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  Prayer, Moral, Mysterious

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.78, Discovery House

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