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The Spirit of God brings justification with a shattering, radiant light, and I know that I am saved, even though I don't know how it was accomplished. — Oswald Chambers

God never crushes a man's will into surrender, He never beseeches him, He waits until the man yields up his will to Him. — Oswald Chambers

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God's Word. — Oswald Chambers

When we think seriously about what it will cost others if we obey the call of Jesus, we tell God He doesn't know what our obedience will cost. — Oswald Chambers

The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home. — Oswald J. Smith

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself. — Oswald Chambers

I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's beyond me. — Alice Oswald

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit — Oswald Chambers

I was just down in Dallas, Texas ... the Assassination Museum ... it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it. — Bill Hicks

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen. — J. Oswald Sanders

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake. — Oswald Chambers

Serving and suffering are paired in the teaching and life of our Lord. One does not come without the other. And what servant is greater than The Lord? — J. Oswald Sanders

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it. — Alice Oswald

When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat. — Oswald Boelcke

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's. — Oswald Chambers

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers. — Alice Oswald

Jesus did not stand as a prophet and utter judgements; wherever He went the unerring directness of His presence located men. — Oswald Chambers

The Son of God reveals Himself in me, and out of devotion to Him service becomes my everyday way of life. — Oswald Chambers

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. — J. Oswald Sanders

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer. — Oswald Chambers

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross. — Oswald Chambers

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace. — Oswald Chambers

If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a storm and send you out. — Oswald Chambers

Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world. — Oswald Chambers

You have to be the nourishment for other people's souls until they learn to feed on God. Oswald Chambers — Oswald Chambers

If to live is to die, then to die is to live on. — Palle Oswald

No one's going to shoot at me. — Lee Harvey Oswald

You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old. — Viggo Mortensen

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. — J. Oswald Sanders

God has His own training methods, and it is usually true that His way up first leads down, for the mountain is only as high as the valley is deep. — J. Oswald Sanders

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life. — Oswald Chambers

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world. — Oswald Chambers

The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose - to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs. — Oswald Chambers

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion. — Oswald Chambers

There are not three levels of spiritual life--worship, waiting, and work...God's idea is that the three should go together as one. — Oswald Chambers

All of God's people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. — Oswald Chambers

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives. — Oswald Chambers

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer. — Oswald Chambers

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. — Oswald Chambers

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air. — Alice Oswald

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's. — Oswald Chambers

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father. — Oswald Chambers

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us. — Oswald Chambers

One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purpose, and yours may be that life. — Oswald Chambers

It is at the risk of our own soul's welfare that we get caught up in practical busy-work, — Oswald Chambers

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. — Oswald Chambers

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing. — Oswald Chambers

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in? — Oswald Chambers

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin. — Oswald Chambers

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. — Oswald Chambers

The Doctor: I've seen bigger.
Clara: Really?
The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive! — Steven Moffat

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word. — Oswald Chambers

Maybe we are all somebody's devil," Oswald says. "Maybe even me and you. — Matthew Dicks

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes. — Oswald Chambers

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops. — Oswald Chambers

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision. — Oswald Chambers

There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them. — Alice Oswald

We are here for God's designs, not for our own — Oswald Chambers

The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself. — Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive. — Oswald Chambers

You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34) — Oswald Chambers

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future. — Oswald Chambers

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human. — J. Oswald Sanders

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer. — J. Oswald Sanders

First John 3:9 does not mean that we cannot sin; it means that if we obey the life of God in us, we need not sin. — Oswald Chambers

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired. — J. Oswald Sanders

Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary. — J. Oswald Sanders

When we choose deliberately to obey Him, then, with all His almighty power, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us. — Oswald Chambers

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations. — Oswald Spengler

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. — Oswald Chambers

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us. — Oswald Chambers

When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul. — Oswald Chambers

I can only be responsible for my orders. I cannot be responsible for all the acts of Himmler. — Oswald Pohl

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ ... — Oswald Chambers

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God — Oswald Chambers

It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill. — Oswald Chambers

Never dull your sense of being your utmost for His highest - your best for His glory. — Oswald Chambers

He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses. — Oswald Chambers

There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers. — Oswald Chambers

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

Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it - good, but not best. — Oswald Chambers

God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now. — Oswald Chambers

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint. — Oswald Chambers

Paul's secret joy was that God took him as a blatant rebel against Jesus Christ, and made him a captive - and that became his purpose. — Oswald Chambers

Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him. — Oswald Chambers

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do - God's purpose is to make us one with Himself. — Oswald Chambers

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. — Oswald Chambers

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them. — Oswald Chambers

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose. — Oswald Chambers

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. — Oswald Chambers

Prayer is indeed the Christian's vital breath and native air. — J. Oswald Sanders

To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God's interests in other people. That ye love one another; as I have loved you ... — Oswald Chambers

We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. — Oswald Chambers

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

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It. — Oswald Chambers

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Oswald Chambers — Oswald Chambers

renounce it as soon as it comes to mind - renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all. — Oswald Chambers

Consecration would soon be changed into sanctification if we would only concentrate on what God wants. — Oswald Chambers

I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks. — Oswald Grubel

He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfection for you... — Oswald Chambers