Oswald Chambers

Theologian

1874-07-24

Quotes by Oswald Chambers

• It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.

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• There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

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• Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

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• Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

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• 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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• A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

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• Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.

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• The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

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• 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. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R

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• The show business, which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.

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• Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

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• As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

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• We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.

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• ... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

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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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• A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.

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• God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

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• Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

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• Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

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• 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 am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

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