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Our Own Quotes by Oswald Chambers
- We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail…
- Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
- 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.
- If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We…
- When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts…
- We are here for God's designs, not for our own
- The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a…
- It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
- Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but…
- Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.
- If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
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