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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.


Oswald Mosley

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DENIS OSWALD When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" Th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means s...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is n...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scient...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exc...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do n...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
OSWALD CHAMBERS Are you loyal to Jesus or loyal to your notion of Him?
OSWALD CHAMBERS The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the reade...
OSWALD SPENGLER We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray wh...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually...Beware of the danger of relaxation spiritually.
OSWALD CHAMBERS I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of...
OSWALD CHAMBERS We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspir...
OSWALD CHAMBERS God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
OSWALD CHAMBERS We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Holy Saturday When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; o...
OSWALD CHAMBERS When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.".
OSWALD CHAMBERS Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Where would you be if God took away al...
OSWALD CHAMBERS If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit i...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any mo...
OSWALD SPENGLER You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself.
OSWALD CHAMBERS We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a d...
OSWALD CHAMBERS All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.
OSWALD CHAMBERS We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a ...
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