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In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means

In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.

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Mean, Long, Doe
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.331, Discovery House

God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

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Worry, Upset, Way
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.383, Discovery House

The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

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Christian, Religious, Jesus
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.54, Discovery House

The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

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Jesus, Lying, Son
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.536, Discovery House

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

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Mountain, Ordinary, Saws
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.232, Discovery House

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

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Deeds, Good Deeds, Good Things
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.24, Discovery House

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

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Cost, Salvation
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.148, Discovery House

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

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Prayer, Preparation, Church

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

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Faith, Religious, Clouds

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having - viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life.

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Giving Up, Giving, Sake

Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

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Jesus, Real, Men
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.389, Discovery House

Never run away with the idea that it doesn't matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.

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Running, Believe, Divorce
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.29, Discovery House

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

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Mistake, Mean, Self
Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

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Christianity, Good Things, Institutions
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Approved Unto God / Facing Reality”, p.90, Discovery House

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

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Spiritual, Morning, Prayer
Oswald Chambers (1997). “God's Workmanship: And, He Shall Glorify Me”, Discovery House Pub

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

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Mean, Reality, Sincerity
Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”, p.27, Gideon House Books

We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.

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Divine Guidance, People, Giving
Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get rid of the underlying idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience. Who of us could ever obey God to absolute perfection!

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Jesus, Ideas, Perfection
Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

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Jesus, Son, Destiny
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.33, Discovery House

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

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Spiritual, Inspiration, Angel

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

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Faith, Religious, Giving
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.425, Discovery House

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

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World, Way, Limits
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.36, Discovery House

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

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Prayer, Mean, Mind
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.190, Discovery House

My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Commitment, Opportunity
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.180, Discovery House

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

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Suffering, Exaltation, Alive
"My Utmost for His Highest".

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