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Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience.
— Oswald Chambers
Never live on your memories of past experiences, but let the Word of God always be living and active in you.
— Oswald Chambers
Staleness is an indication that something in out lives is out of step with God.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.
— Oswald Chambers
To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it.
— Oswald Chambers
Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow
— Oswald Chambers
We say that there ought to be no sorrow, but thereis sorrow, and we have to accept and receive ourselves in its fires. If we try to evade sorrow, refusing to deal with it, we are foolish. Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life, and there is no use in saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.
— Oswald Chambers
Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.
— Oswald Chambers
One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God.
— Oswald Chambers
Sorrow removes a great deal of a person's shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow.
— 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
When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
— Oswald Chambers