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Saint Quotes by Oswald Chambers

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A prayer that can paralyze darkness is described as a saint’s power. The quotes say a saint is not a title but a dependence on God, placed where they can bring the most glory. They also warn not to trust even the finest saint if it blocks the view of Jesus.

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The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

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The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

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A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

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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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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that…

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The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

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The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do…

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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek…

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God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.'…

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The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes…

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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…

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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…

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God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal…

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The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing…

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The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The…

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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…

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Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands…

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In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the…

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God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit…

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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you…

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God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for…

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When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son…

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Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus…

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“The saint who satisfies the heart of Jesus will make other saints strong and mature for God.”

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The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective…

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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…

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“Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.”

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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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The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count,…

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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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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the…

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The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great…

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When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach…

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Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The…

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Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint…

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One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He…

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“ A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that…

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Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

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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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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

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“Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.”

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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through…

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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We…

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“It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.”

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“If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection…

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“My spiritual history must have as its underlying foundation a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ. To be born again means that I see Jesus.”

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We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in…

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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…

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The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

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The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

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