Oswald Chambers Quotes

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Oswald Chambers

Profession : Theologian

Birth : July 24, 1874

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

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

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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

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