At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered for My sake. Many of us awaken antagonism by our way of stating things; we have to distinguish between being persecuted for some notion of our own and being persecuted “for My sake. Oswald Chambers
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More Quotes By Oswald Chambers
  1. We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
  2. Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
  3. If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
  4. 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.
  5. 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, and God may say...
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