"Jesus speaking......
Oswald Chambers,
Scottish evangelist.
(1874 - 1917)
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Oswald
Chambers
Selected Quotations - Part 3
Take
yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off
your incarnate laziness.”
“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.”
“Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by
obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding
of God’s
will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more
readily
sacrifice their natural man to the will of God.”
“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.”
“It never
cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost
when you
are in love with someone is an insult.”
“Jesus
never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest
use. God
places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we
are
totally incapable of judging where that may be.”
“God is
not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the
purpose
of God. Be faithful to Him.”
“If you
are faced with the question of whether or not to surrender,
make a
determination to go on through the crisis, surrendering all that you
have and
all that you are to Him. And God will then equip you to do all that He
requires
of you.”
“Get into
the habit of saying, ‘Speak, Lord,’ and life will become a
romance.”
“You
cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a
spiritual
holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and
this means
that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous
amount of
time.”
“A man
may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may
betray
him through keeping his mouth shut.”
“Conceit
makes the way God deals with me personally the binding
standard for
others.”
“Emotion
is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder
is to
lose the true element of religion.”
“We are
blind to the very things that make for our own peace.”
“Your god
may be your little Christian habit; the habit of prayer or
Bible
reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset
your
schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit
symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone
with
God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.”
“The most
important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but
the
relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities
produced
by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to,
and it
is the one thing that is continually under attack.”
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