OCOswald Chambers

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Oswald Chambers

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01Undated

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

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02Undated

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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03Undated

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.

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04Undated

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.

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05Undated

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

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06Undated

Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus.

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07Undated

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

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08Undated

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

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09Undated

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

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10Undated

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.

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11Undated

We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.

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12Undated

Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.

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13Undated

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.

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14Undated

Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses the conscience and brings him into the presence of God, it is not his relationship with men that bothers him, but his relationship with God.

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15Undated

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

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16Undated

We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.

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17Undated

The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

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18Undated

To follow Jesus today is to follow a madman according to the ideals of present day civilization. We have the idea that our civilization is God-ordained, whereas it has been built up by ourselves. We have made a thousand and one necessities until our system of civilized life is as cast iron, and then we apologize to the Lord for not following Him.

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19Undated

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

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20Undated

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

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21Undated

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

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22Undated

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

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23Undated

It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet.

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24Undated

Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? 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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