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Him 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,…
- 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…
- Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
- Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He…
- Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
- Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His…
- The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our…
- 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…
- Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a…
- Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
- We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the…
- Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that…
- We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest,…
- Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of…
- Are you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you should wait until you can clearly see how to…
- We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when…
- When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer…
- For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a…
- So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.
- Do you believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Are you willing to let Him?
- Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about…
- The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.
- Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into…
- The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden