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Before Quotes by Oswald Chambers
- 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…
- 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,…
- Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
- One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in…
- Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a…
- We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the…
- The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
- We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
- To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in…
- It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the…
- Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to…
- Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God…
- Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.
- As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive…
- The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in…
- You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
- The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist…
- God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your…
- If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to…
- Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug