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If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good

If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

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Son, Good Man, Problem

The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.

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Jesus, Devotion, Easier
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.4, Discovery House

One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......Hav e you been asking what God is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do. He reveals to you who he is.

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Christian, Difficult Questions, Doe

A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.

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Jesus, Hypocrite, Reality
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.192, Discovery House

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

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Christian, Prayer, Answers
Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.135, Discovery House

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

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Christian, Saint, Should
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.54, Discovery House

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

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Prayer, Watches, Motive
Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct”, p.29, Discovery House

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

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Character, Choices, Doe
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.449, Discovery House

The good is always the enemy of the best.

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Enemy, Utmost For His Highest
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.310, Discovery House

Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.

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Mean, Son, Perfect
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.39, Discovery House

If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

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Jesus, Majority, Intention
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.265, Discovery House

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

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Jesus, Faces, Christ
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.68, Discovery House

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

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Valleys, Height, Drudgery
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.40, Discovery House

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

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Jesus, Done, Realizing
"My Utmost for His Highest".

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

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Jobs, Prayer, Issues
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.88, Discovery House

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

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God, Christian, Spirit
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.248, Discovery House

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

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Faith, Loyalty, Iron
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.86, Discovery House

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

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Prayer, Exercise, Answers
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.307, Discovery House

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

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Thinking, Use, Alone With God
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.128, Discovery House

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

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Heart, Intellectual, Matter

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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God, Soul, Enemy
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.416, Discovery House

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

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Christian, Live Life, Tests
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.652, Discovery House

Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

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Giving, Exhausted, Used
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.90, Discovery House

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

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Character, Done, Holy
Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

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Giving Up, Exercise, Action
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.398, Discovery House

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