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The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

Oswald Chambers
Religious, Attitude, Character
Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

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

Oswald Chambers
Character, Men, Tests

The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.

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Christian, Character, Godly
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.538, Discovery House

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

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Teaching, Character, Thinking
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.39, Discovery House

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

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Character, Crooks, Use
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.35, Discovery House

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

Oswald Chambers
Christian, Character, Expression
Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

Oswald Chambers
Spiritual, Believe, Character
Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.74, Discovery House

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.

Oswald Chambers
Character, Giving, Doe
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.70, Discovery House

To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

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Believe, Character, Men

Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers
Jesus, Character, And Love

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

Oswald Chambers
Prayer, Character, Two

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

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Prayer, Character, Way
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.186, Discovery House

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

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Character, Trying, Arguing
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.464, Discovery House

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

Oswald Chambers
Jesus, Character, Mean
Oswald Chambers (2014). “Biblical Psychology: Christ-Centered Solutions for Daily Problems”, p.164, Discovery House

When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.

Oswald Chambers
Character, Mirrors, Spirit
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.9, Discovery House

Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

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Real, Character, Work Out
"My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition".

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.

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

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

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

Oswald Chambers
Real, Character, Mean
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.115, Discovery House

Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, “I will remain true to God’s character whatever He may do.” The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).

Oswald Chambers
Jobs, Character, Expression
Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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