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Oswald Chambers (24 July 1874 – 15 November 1917) was an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.

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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.

Running, Believe, Divorce, Think, Idea

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.

Against, Come Up, Devastating, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Stubbornness

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

Experience, Habit, Talking, Truth Is

Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing.

Become, Breathing, Impossible Things, Jesus, See, Things

Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

People, Water, May, Statements, Mighty

We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.

Affect, Allow, Circumstances, Responsible, Want, Way

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.

God, Real, Common Sense, Majority, Enthrone

God saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not contribute to our happiness, but all can be made to contribute to our holiness. Vance Havner The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.

Experiences, Happy, Holiness, Men, Saint

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

Deeds, Good, Good Deeds, Good Things, Preach, Things

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

Amount, Shallowness, Sorrow

There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Abyss, Christ, Heart, Jesus, Lasts

If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.

Angry, God, Irritation, Prayer, Spiritual

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

Religious, Shoes, Feet, Questionable, Stood, Rid

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

Insight, Intellectual, Jesus, Men, Understanding

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

Certainty, God, Hang, Knowing, Perseverance, Spiritual

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.

Doe, God, Good Things, Grace, Motives, Supernatural

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

Drab, Drudgery, Height, Mountaintop, Valleys

Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

Mutiny, Sin, Blatant, God

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only reason for the forgiveness of our sins by God, and the infinite depth of His promise to forget them, is the death of Jesus Christ. . . No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ. . . To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

God, Jesus, Mean, Promise, Son, Sorry

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

Voice, Silence, Damnation

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