Oswald Chambers Quotes

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• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
• 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…
• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
• It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
• We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
• I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot…
• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
• 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…
• Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that…
• Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every…
• The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is…
• The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of…
• Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
• Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God,…
• Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to…
• Prayer is an effort of will.

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