Oswald Chambers

Quotes from author, preacher and missionary who's book My Utmost For His Highest has become an inspiration to people around the world. (2017)

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and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2 Cor 10:15

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Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God...

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"Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world."

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If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. (1/2)

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... They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. (2/2)

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Never let God give you one point of truth which you do not instantly live up to. Always work it out, keep in the light of it

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If the Spirit of God detects anything wrong in u, He doesn't ask u to put it right; He asks u to accept the light, & He will put it right

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"God has not called us to success but to faithfulness

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We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself

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By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting

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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

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"The Word of God inflicts hurt on us more than sin ever could, because sin dulls our senses."

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“When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.”

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties

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All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose he has given them.

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"Prayer is an effort of will"

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We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not