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May Quotes by Oswald Chambers
- Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that if we have received His fullness, 'rivers of living water' will flow…
- Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your…
- 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 of who comes…
- 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,…
- Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what…
- There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain…
- Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Â…
- If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply…
- Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to…
- To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince…
- Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, “I will remain true to…
- You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
- God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
- When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God…
- Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.
- My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they…
- Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
- Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense…
- What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I…
- God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
- Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong