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Oswald Chambers Inspirational Quotes (434)

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Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
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We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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The nature of faith is that it must be tried.
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There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
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It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
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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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God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.
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God does not give us overcoming life He gives us life as we overcome.
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God saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not contribute to our happiness, but all can be made to contribute to our holiness. Vance Havner The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.
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Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
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Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.
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A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.
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Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.
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We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.
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Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.
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The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
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The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
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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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When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.
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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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