Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) was a Scottish minister and Christian teacher, best known for his influential devotional book, “My Utmost for His Highest.” Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Chambers studied at the University of Edinburgh and later trained for Christian ministry. He became a noted preacher and teacher, with a particular focus on spiritual renewal and deepening one’s relationship with God. Chambers and his wife, Biddy, were involved in ministry in the United Kingdom and the United States. His teachings, compiled by Biddy after his death, form the basis for the widely read and cherished daily devotional, “My Utmost for His Highest,” which continues to inspire and guide readers in their spiritual journeys around the world.
Oswald Chambers Quotes
1. “Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.”
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2. “The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.”
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3. “Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.”
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4. “Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years but by obedience to the will of God.”
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5. “Trust God, and do the next thing.”
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6. “God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.”
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7. “When you fear God you fear nothing else!”
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8. “Don’t forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.”
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9. “We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.”
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10. “Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.”
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11. “Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ…”
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12. “All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.”
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13. “No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.”
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14. “Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”
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15. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.”
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16. “Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.”
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17. “If through a broken heart, God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”
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18. “Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.”
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19. “When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.”
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20. “We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”
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21. “Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.”
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22. “Trust yourself in God’s hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. ‘Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.’”
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23. “When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.”
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24. “Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.”
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25. “God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?”
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26. “The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.”
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27. “The good is always the enemy of the best.”
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28. “A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.”
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29. “The love of God is not created- it is His nature.”
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30. “There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.”
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31. “Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.”
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32. “Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.”
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33. “God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.”
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34. “The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.”
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35. “God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers, we come to discern the mind of God.”
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36. “An unguarded strength is a double weakness.”
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37. “Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
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38. “Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.”
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39. “We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.”
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40. “To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.”
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41. “Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.”
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42. “The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.”
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43. “When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.”
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44. “We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life “hidden with Christ in God” in our everyday human conditions.”
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45. “We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.”
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46. “Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.”
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47. “God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.”
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48. “Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.”
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49. “Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.”
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50. “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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51. “Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.”
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52. “God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.”
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53. “When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.”
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54. “At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.”
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55. “Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.”
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56. “Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.”
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57. “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 pay whatever it may cost.”
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58. “The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.”
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59. “When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word.”
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60. “The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.”
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61. “Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamor of the world.”
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62. “We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.”
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63. “If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.”
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64. “Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.”
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65. “Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.”
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66. “Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.”
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67. “Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.”
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68. “Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith-based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.”
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69. “We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.”
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70. “Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.”
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71. “No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.”
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72. “At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.”
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73. “Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.”
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74. “The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandoned.”
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75. “I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.”
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76. “Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.”
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77. “There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.”
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78. “In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.”
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79. “We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.”
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80. “There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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81. “Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.”
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82. “We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”
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83. “My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.”
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84. “Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.”
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85. “We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.”
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86. “Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.”
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87. “Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.”
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88. “Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentrated on Jesus Christ.”
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89. “When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.”
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90. “Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.”
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91. “The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.”
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92. “Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.”
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93. “Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.”
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94. “The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.”
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95. “It must be God first, God second, and God third.”
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96. “Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.”
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97. “Sin is blatant mutiny against God.”
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98. “Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.”
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99. “It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.”
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100. “God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.”
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101. “You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.”
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102. “The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.”
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103. “If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.”
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104. “Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.”
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105. “Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.”
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106. “Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.”
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107. “We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.”
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108. “Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.”
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109. “Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.”
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110. “We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.”
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111. “Our work begins where God’s grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.”
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112. “Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.”
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113. “We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.”
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114. “My worth to God in public is what I am in private.”
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115. “Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.”
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116. “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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117. “Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.”
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118. “God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”
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119. “Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.”
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120. “The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.”
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121. “Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all.”
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122. “The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.”
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123. “It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.”
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124. “All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.”
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125. “The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”
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126. “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.”
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127. “The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.”
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128. “There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.”
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129. “When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.”
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130. “Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.”
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131. “If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the breathing continues – we are not conscious of it but it is always going on.”
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132. “The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a ‘happy Christian.’ Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed ‘that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.’”
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133. “God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already.”
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134. “Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.”
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135. “God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.”
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136. “Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.”
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137. “All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.”
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138. “There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.”
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139. “The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.”
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140. “God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.”
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141. “We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.”
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142. “Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.”
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143. “In times of prosperity, we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognize Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilization becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.”
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144. “Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.”
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145. “Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God’s perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.”
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146. “Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.”
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147. “It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something…”
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148. “There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you – and His experiments always succeed.”
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149. “Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.”
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150. “Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.”
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151. “If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.”
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152. “The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.”
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153. “Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.”
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154. “Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.”
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155. “Obey Him with glad reckless joy.”
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156. “God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.”
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157. “The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.”
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158. “The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.”
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159. “The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.”
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160. “Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.”
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161. “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 account.”
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162. “If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.”
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163. “By the supernatural miracle of God’s grace, I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.”
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164. “The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.”
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165. “Beware of reasoning about God’s Word – obey It.”
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166. “The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.”
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167. “The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.”
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168. “Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.”
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169. “The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.”
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170. “Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.”
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171. “God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.”
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172. “Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says – I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.”
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173. “You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.”
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174. “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 never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”
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175. “Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.”
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176. “Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.”
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177. “Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.”
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178. “The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.”
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179. “Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.”
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180. “Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don’t pray more.”
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181. “The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.”
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182. “It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.”
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183. “No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit.”
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184. “Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.”
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185. “Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.”
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186. “There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.”
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187. “When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.”
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188. “God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.”
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189. “No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.”
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190. “Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.”
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191. “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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192. “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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193. “We must learn to live in the ordinary ‘gray’ day according to what we saw on the mountain.”
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194. “The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.”
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195. “The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God’s character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.”
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196. “The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.”
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197. “The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.”
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198. “Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.”
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199. “Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.”
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200. “We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.”
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