"Jesus speaking......
Oswald Chambers,
Scottish evangelist.
(1874 - 1917)
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Oswald
Chambers
Selected Quotations - Part 1
If
through a broken heart God can bring His
purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”
“We tend
to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our
first line
of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants
us to
pray before we do anything at all.
“Most of
us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something
that
will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve
matters in
His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with
ours.”
“Faith
never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the
One who is
leading.”
“Prayer
does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater
work.”
“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.”
“God
never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but
that we may
intercede.”
“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.”
“The
author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you
something you
did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that
has
been silently struggling in you for utterance.”
“The
whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave
undone.”
“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...Watch where God puts you
into
darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the
dark just
now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain
quiet...When
you are in the dark, listen.”
“The
teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not: Do your duty, but: Do
what is
not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the
other
cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these
things.
There will be no spirit of, 'Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have
been
so misrepresented and misunderstood'... Never look for right in the
other man, but never cease to do right yourself. We are always looking
for
justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is: Never look for
justice,
but never cease to live it.”
“If
sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is
an
absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs
is not 'a little bit of love,' but major surgery. If you think you are
helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a
traitor to
Jesus Christ. You must have a right standing relationship with Him
yourself,
and pour your life out in helping others in His way, not in a human way
that
ignores God.”
“We are
not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other
beautiful
attractions in life. Those are simply intended to be moments of
inspiration.
We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is
where we
have to prove our stamina and strength.”
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