Oswald Chambers Quotes - Page 29

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• If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

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  Jesus, Faces, Christ

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.68, Discovery House

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• Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

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  Christian, Saint, Should

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.54, Discovery House

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• The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

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  Gold, Weight, Worth It

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.64, Discovery House

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• Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

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  Christian, Prayer, Answers

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.135, Discovery House

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• Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

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  Prayer, Watches, Motive

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct”, p.29, Discovery House

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• Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

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  Jobs, Prayer, Issues

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.88, Discovery House

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• We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

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  God, Soul, Enemy

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.416, Discovery House

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• The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

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  Christian, Live Life, Tests

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.652, Discovery House

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• Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

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  Faith, Loyalty, Iron

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.86, Discovery House

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• Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

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  Giving, Exhausted, Used

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.90, Discovery House

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• When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

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  Character, Done, Holy

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

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  Giving Up, Exercise, Action

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.398, Discovery House

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• The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

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  Motivational, Discipline, Purpose

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.13, Discovery House

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• In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.

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  Christian, Jesus, Motivation

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.405, Discovery House

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• If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

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  Reality, Preaching The Gospel, People

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.694, Discovery House

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• The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.

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  Men, Ideas, Iron

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• Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

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  Real, Character, Mean

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.115, Discovery House

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• Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

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  Commitment, Mean, Being Free

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

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• The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

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  Saint, Impossible, Difficulty

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.59, Discovery House

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• Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

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  Prayer, Children, Simple

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character”, p.88, Discovery House

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• God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

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  Judging, Atonement, Christ

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.367, Discovery House

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• Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.

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  Opinion

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.273, Discovery House

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• It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

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  Prayer, Secret, Impossible

  Oswald Chambers (2017). “Utmost Ongoing: Reflections on the Legacy of Oswald Chambers”, p.59, Discovery House

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• When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

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  Jesus, Lord, Born Again

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.216, Discovery House

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• Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

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  Forgiveness, Miracle, Grace

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

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