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Ability
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.
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Adversity
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
-Oswald Chambers
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
-Oswald Chambers
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Character
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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Determination
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
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Enemy, Enemies
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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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Faith
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.
-Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest
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Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.
-Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest
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Friends
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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Happiness
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Problems
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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 manners will keep you from being amused.
-Oswald Chambers, Daily Thoughts, Nov. 10th
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Progress
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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
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Promises
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It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.
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Reading
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
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Selfishness
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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.
-Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
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