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Oswald Chambers was Scottish baptist and evangelist. Oswald Chambers was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher who was aligned with the Holiness Movement. He is best known for the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.”
— Oswald Chambers
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“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”
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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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“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”
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“The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.”
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“What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions...”
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