"We are apt to think that everything that……" — Oswald Chambers
"We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something."
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Oswald Chambers
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588 Quotes by Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers has 588 quotes on this site.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me…
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce…
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