Background Image
The Path Of Peace For Us Is To Hand Ourselves Over To God And Ask Him To Search Us, Not What We Think We Are, Or What Other People Think We Are, Or What We Persuade Ourselves We Are Or Would Like To Be, But 'search Me Out, O God, Explore Me As I Really Am In Thy Sight.'
-Oswald Chambers
Please Wait....
Translating....

The Path Of Peace

Oswald Chambers
The Path Of Peace For Us Is To Hand Ourselves Over To God And Ask Him To Search Us, Not What We Think We Are, Or What Other People Think We Are, Or What We Persuade Ourselves We Are Or Would Like To Be, But 'search Me Out, O God, Explore Me As I Really Am In Thy Sight.'
Views: 3
Topic
Thinking
Sight
Hands
More From Oswald Chambers
Perseverance Is More Than Endurance." It Is Endurance Combined With Absolute Assurance And Certainty That What We Are Looking For Is Going To Happen. Perseverance Means More Than Just Hanging On, Which May Only Be Exposing Our Fear Of Letting Go And Falling. Perseverance Is Our Supreme Effort Of Refusing To Believe That Our Hero Is Going To Be Conquered.
Letting Go
Perseverance
Hero
The Prayer Of The Saints Is Never Self-important, But Always God-important.
Prayer
Self
Important
Have I Allowed My Personal Human Life To Become A 'bethlehem' For The Son Of God?
Son
Bethlehem
Human Life
Am I Prepared To Let God Grip Me By His Power And Do A Work In Me That Is Worthy Of Himself? Sanctification Is Not My Idea Of What I Want God To Do For Me; Sanctification Is God's Idea Of What He Wants To Do For Me, And He Has To Get Me Into The Attitude Of Mind And Spirit Where At Any Cost I Will Let Him Sanctify Me Wholly.
Letting Go
Attitude
Ideas
For One Man Who Can Introduce Another To Jesus Christ By The Way He Lives And By The Atmosphere Of His Life, There Are A Thousand Who Can Only Talk Jargon About Him
Christian
Jesus
Men
Once We See Jesus, The Impossible Things He Does In Our Lives Become As Natural As Breathing.
Jesus
Impossible Things
Breathing
The Sermon On The Mount Is Not A Set Of Principles To Be Obeyed Apart From Identification With Jesus Christ. The Sermon On The Mount Is A Statement Of The Life We Will Live When The Holy Spirit Is Getting His Way With Us.
Jesus
Principles
Way
The Christian Church Should Not Be A Secret Society Of Specialists, But A Public Manifestation Of Believers In Jesus.
Christian
Religious
Jesus
Faith Never Knows Where It Is Being Led, It Knows And Loves The One Who Is Leading. Faith Is Not Resignation To A Power We Do Not Know; Faith Is Committal To One Whose Character We Do Know Because It Has Been Revealed To Us In Jesus Christ.
Jesus
Character
And Love
Faith Never Knows Where It Is Being Led, But It Loves And Knows The One Who Is Leading.
Inspirational
Faith
Christianity
Never Be Diplomatic And Careful About The Treasure God Gives. This Is Poverty Triumphant.
Giving
Treasure
Poverty
Prayer Is Not Only Asking, It Is An Attitude Of Heart That Produces An Atmosphere In Which Asking Is Perfectly Natural, And Jesus Says, "every One That Asketh Receiveth."
Jesus
Prayer
Attitude
Beware Of Reasoning About God's Word - Obey It.
Christianity
Reasoning
The Center Of Salvation Is The Cross Of Jesus, And The Reason It Is So Easy To Obtain Salvation Is Because It Cost God So Much.
Jesus
Cost
Reason
Discipleship Is Based Solely On Devotion To Jesus Christ, Not On Following After A Particular Belief Or Doctrine.
Christian
Jesus
Doctrine
Quit Praying About Yourself And Spend Your Life For The Sake Of Others As The Bondservant Of Jesus. That Is The True Meaning Of Being Broken Bread And Poured-out Wine In Real Life.
Jesus
Real
Wine
If God Has Made Your Cup Sweet, Drink It With Grace; If He Has Made It Bitter, Drink It In Communion With Him.
Sweet
Grace
Cups
The Entrance Into The Kingdom Is Through The Panging Pains Of Repentance Crashing Into A Man's Respectable Goodness; Then The Holy Ghost, Who Produces These Agonies Begins The Formation Of The Son God In The Life.
Pain
Son
Men
For Understanding In Spiritual Matters, The Golden Rule Is Not Intellect But Obedience.
Spiritual
Understanding
Matter
We Must Learn To Live In The Ordinary 'gray' Day According To What We Saw On The Mountain.
Mountain
Ordinary
Saws
Are You Willing To Give And Be Poured Out Until You Are Used Up And Exhausted-not Seeking To Be Ministered To, But To Minister?
Giving
Exhausted
Used
God Gives Us The Vision, Then He Takes Us Down To The Valley To Batter Us Into The Shape Of The Vision, And It Is In The Valley That So Many Of Us Faint And Give Way. Every Vision Will Be Made Real If We Will Have Patience. Think Of The Enormous Leisure Of God! He Is Never In A Hurry.
Christian
Thinking
Leisure
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.
Jesus
Sorry
Mean
Make Converts To Your Own Thoughts And Opinions.
Opinion
Faith Is Unutterable Trust In God, Trust Which Never Dreams That He Will Not Stand By Us.
Dream
Trust In God
Think Of The Enormous Leisure Of God! He Is Never In A Hurry. We Are Always In Such A Frantic Hurry. In The Light Of The Glory Of The Vision We Go Forth To Do Things, But The Vision Is Not Real In Us Yet; And God Has To Take Us Into The Valley, And Put Us Through Fires And Floods To Batter Us Into Shape, Until We Get To The Place Where He Can Trust Us.... Let Him Put You On His Wheel And Whirl You As He Likes, And As Sure As God Is God And You Are You, You Will Turn Out Exactly In Accordance With The Vision. Don't Lose Heart In The Process.
Faith
Real
Inspiration
Ask God For What You Want, But You Cannot Ask If You Are Not Asking For A Right Thing. When You Draw Near To God, You Cease From Asking For Things."your Father Knows What Things You Have Need Of, Before You Ask Him." Then, Why Ask? That You May Get To Know Him.
Prayer
Father
Needs
God Expects No Complaining On Our Part And Offers No Explanation On His Part.
Complaining
Explanation
No Complaining
We Shall Find That The Spheres God Brings Us Into Are Not Meant To Teach Us Something But To Make Us Something.
Spheres
Teach
Wherever There Is Any Element Of Pride Or Of Conceit, Jesus Cannot Expound A Thing. He Will Take Us Through The Disappointment Of A Wounded Pride Of Intellect, Through Disappointment Of Heart. He Will Reveal Inordinate Affections-thin Gs Over Which We Never Thought He Would Have To Get Us Alone.
Jesus
Disappointment
Heart
If You Yourself Do Not Cut The Lines That Tie You To The Dock, God Will Have To Use A Storm To Sever Them And To Send You Out To Sea. You Have To Get Out Past The Harbor Into The Great Dephts Of God, And Begin To Know Things For Yourself....beg In To Have Spiritual Discernment. Beware Of Paying Attention Or Going Back To What You Once Were, When God Wants You To Be Something That You Have Never Been.
Spiritual
Cutting
Past
One Of The Most Difficult Questions To Answer In Christian Work Is, 'what Do You Expect To Do?' You Don't Know What You Are Going To Do. The Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......hav E You Been Asking What God Is Going To Do? He Will Never Tell You. God Does Not Tell You What He Is Going To Do. He Reveals To You Who He Is.
Christian
Difficult Questions
Doe
Watch The Things You Say You Can't Believe, And Then Recall The Things You Accept Without Thinking, Like Your Own Existence.
Believe
Thinking
Watches
When God Gives Us A Vision, We Must Transact Business With Him At That Point, No Matter What The Cost.
Giving
Vision
Cost
Seeing Is Never Believing: We Interpret What We See In The Light Of What We Believe. Faith Is Confidence In God Before You See God Emerging, Therefore The Nature Of Faith Is That It Must Be Tried.
God
Faith
Confidence
It Is A Trap To Presume That God Wants To Make Us Perfect Specimens Of What He Can Do— God’s Purpose Is To Make Us One With Himself.
Perfect
Purpose
Want
It Is Easy For Us To Tarnish God's Character Because He Never Argues Back; He Never Tries To Defend Or Vindicate Himself.
Character
Trying
Arguing
We Look Upon Prayer Simply As A Means Of Getting Things For Ourselves, But The Biblical Purpose Of Prayer Is That We May Get To Know God Himself.
Faith
Christian
Prayer
The Most Important Aspect Of Christianity Is Not The Work We Do, But The Relationship We Maintain And The Surrounding Influence And Qualities Produced By That Relationship. That Is All God Asks Us To Give Our Attention To, And It Is The One Thing That Is Continually Under Attack.
Giving
Important
Quality
The Lasting Value Of Our Public Service For God Is Measured By The Depth Of The Intimacy Of Our Private Times Of Fellowship And Oneness With Him.
Oneness
Fellowship
Depth
Beware Of Giving Over To Mere Dreaming When Once God Has Spoken. Leave Him To Be The Source Of All Your Dreams And Joys And Delights, And Go Out And Obey What He Has Said. If You Are In Love, You Do Not Sit Down And Dream About The One You Love All The Time, You Go And Do Something For Him; And That Is What Jesus Christ Expects Us To Do. Dreaming After God Has Spoken Is An Indication That We Do Not Trust Him.
Dream
Jesus
Love You
Never Become Attached To Anything That Continues To Hurt God. For You To Be Free Of It, God Must Be Allowed To Hurt Whatever It May Be.
Hurt
May
Never Say You Will Pray About A Thing; Pray About It.
Prayer
Praying
Sanctification Means The Impartation Of The Holy Qualities Of Jesus Christ. It Is His Patience, His Love, His Holiness, His Faith, His Purity, His Godliness, That Is Manifested In And Through Every Sanctified Soul. Sanctification Is Not Drawing From Jesus The Power To Be Holy; It Is Drawing From Jesus The Holiness That Was Manifested In Him, And He Manifests It In Me.
Jesus
Mean
Drawing
When The Spirit Fills Us, We Are Transformed, And By Beholding God We Become Mirrors. You Can Always Tell When Someone Has Been Beholding The Glory Of The Lord, Because Your Inner Spirit Senses That He Mirrors The Lord’s Own Character. Beware Of Anything That Would Spot Or Tarnish That Mirror In You. It Is Almost Always Something Good That Will Stain It- Something Good, But Not What Is Best.
Character
Mirrors
Spirit
Worshipping God Is The Great Essential Of Fitness. If You Have Not Been Worshipping...when You Get To Work You Will Not Only Be Useless Yourself, But A Tremendous Hindrance To Those Who Are Associated With You.
Prayer
Essentials
Useless
A Saint Realizes That It Is God Who Engineers His Circumstances; Consequently There Are No Complaints, Only Unrestrained Surrender To Jesus.
Faith
Jesus
Inspiration
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.
Men
Saint
Holiness
Fretting Springs From A Determination To Get Our Own Way.
Inspirational
Life
Determination
A Heartless Christian Must Be A Terrible Grief To Our Lord.
Christian
Grief
Heartless
Jesus Christ Reveals, Not An Embarrassed God, Not A Confused God, Not A God Who Stands Apart From The Problems, But One Who Stands In The Thick Of The Whole Thing With Man.
Jesus
Confused
Men
Our Work Begins Where God's Grace Has Laid The Foundation; We Are Not To Save Souls, But To Disciple Them.
Grace
Soul
Foundation
Never Consider Whether You Are Of Use; But Ever Consider That You Are Not Your Own But His.
Use
In Christian Work Our Initiative And Motivation Are Too Often Simply The Result Of Realizing That There Is Work To Be Done And That We Must Do It. Yet That Is Never The Attitude Of A Spiritually Vigorous Saint. His Aim Is To Achieve The Realization Of Jesus Christ In Every Set Of Circumstances.
Christian
Jesus
Motivation
There Are Certain Things We Must Not Pray About - Moods, For Instance. Moods Never Go By Praying, Moods Go By Kicking.
Religious
Religion
Kicking
The Purpose Of Prayer Is To Reveal The Presence Of God Equally Present, All The Time, In Every Condition.
God
Faith
Religious
Readiness For God Means That We Are Ready To Do The Tiniest Little Thing Or The Great Big Thing, It Makes No Difference
Mean
Differences
Littles
Obey God In The Things He Shows You, And Instantly The Next Thing Is Opened Up. God Will Never Reveal More Truth About Himself Until You Have Obeyed What You Know Already...this Chapter Brings Out The Delight Of Real Friendship With God.
Real
Delight
Next
What The World Needs Is Not 'a Little Bit Of Love', But A Surgical Operation.
Needs
World
Littles
Can Jesus Christ See The Agony Of His Soul In Us? He Can't Unless We Are So Closely Identified With Him That We Have His View Concerning The People For Whom We Pray. May We Learn To Intercede So Wholeheartedly That Jesus Christ Will Be Completely And Overwhelmingly Satisfied With Us As Intercessors.
Jesus
Prayer
Views
Our Ordinary Abilities Will Never Worship God Unless They Are Transformed By The Indwelling Son Of God.
Son
Ordinary
Worship
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.
Want
Way
Personal Responsibility
Peace Is The Deepest Thing A Human Personality Can Know; It Is Almighty
Christian
Personality
Almighty
God Did Not Direct His Call To Isaiah— Isaiah Overheard God Saying, ". . . Who Will Go For Us?" The Call Of God Is Not Just For A Select Few But For Everyone. Whether I Hear God’s Call Or Not Depends On The Condition Of My Ears, And Exactly What I Hear Depends Upon My Spiritual Attitude.
Spiritual
Attitude
Ears
All That Our Lord Heeds In A Man's Life Is The Relationship Of Worth To His Father.
Father
Men
Life Is
We Think Of Prayer As A Preparation For Work, Or A Calm After Having Done Work, Whereas Prayer Is The Essential Work.
God
Faith
Christian
Do We Not See God At Work In Our Circumstances? Dark Times Are Allowed And Come To Us Through The Sovreignty Of God. Are We Prepared To Let God Do What He Wants With Us? Are We Prepared To Be Separated From The Outward, Evident Blessings Of God? Until Jesus Christ Is Truly Our Lord, We Each Have Goals Of Our Own Which We Serve. Our Faith Is Real, But It Is Not Yet Permanent. And God Is Never In A Hurry. If We Are Willing To Wait, We Will See God Pointing Out That We Have Been Interested Only In His Blessings, Instead Of God Himself.
Faith
Letting Go
Religious
We Actually Slander And Dishonor God By Our Very Eagerness To Serve Him Without Knowing Him.
Knowing
Dishonor
Slander
Get To The End Of Yourself Where You Can Do Nothing, But Where He Does Everything.
Doe
Ends
Can Do
But The Miracle Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Offender Can Never Exhaust The Depths Of His Love.
Reality
Miracle
Depth
Whenever God's Will Is In The Ascendant All Compulsion Is Gone. When We Choose Deliberately To Obey Him Then With All His Almighty Power.
Stars
Lasts
Sand
My Personal Life May Be Crowded With Small Petty Incidents, Altogether Unnoticeable And Mean; But If I Obey Jesus Christ In The Haphazard Circumstances, They Become Pinholes Through Which I See The Face Of God, And When I Stand Face To Face With God I Will Discover That Through My Obedience Thousands Were Blessed. When Once God's Redemption Comes To The Point Of Obedience In A Human Soul, It Always Creates. If I Obey Jesus Christ, The Redemption Of God Will Rush Through Me To Other Lives, Because Behind The Deed Of Obedience Is The Reality Of Almighty God.
Jesus
Blessed
Mean
Obedience To The Call Of Christ Nearly Always Costs Everything To Two People- The One Who Is Called, And The One Who Loves That One.
God
Faith
Christian
Perseverance Is More Than Endurance. It Is Endurance Combined With Absolute Assurance And Certainty That What We Are Looking For Is Going To Happen.
Perseverance
Encouragement
Endurance
Obey Him With Glad Reckless Joy.
Joy
Reckless
Glad
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.
Spiritual
Perseverance
Knowing
The Marvelous Thing About Spiritual Wealth Is That When We Take Our Part In That, Everyone Else Is Blessed; Whereas If We Refused To Be Partakers, We Hinder Others From Entering Into The Riches Of God.
Spiritual
Blessed
Entering
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.
Determination
Mean
Pride
Some Of The Qualities Of #‎ God Must Be Merged Into Us Before Our #‎ Prayers Can Be Fit For His Acceptance.
Prayer
Acceptance
Quality
What A Blessed Habit I Have Found My Prayer List, Morning By Morning, It Takes Me Via The Throne Of All Grace Straight To The Intimate Personal Heart Of Each One Mentioned Here, And I Know That He Who Is Not Prescribed By Time And Geography Answers Immediately.
Morning
Prayer
Blessed
Never Look For Justice In This World, Never Cease To Give It.
Giving
Justice
Looks
God Plants His Saints In The Most Useless Places. We Say, 'god Intends Me To Be Here Because I Am So Useful.' Jesus Never Estimated His Life Along The Line Of The Greatest Use. God Puts His Saints Where They Will Glorify Him, And We Are No Judge At All Of Where That Is.
Jesus
Judging
Saint
If We Are In Christ The Whole Basis Of Our Goings Is God, Not Conceptions Of God, Not Ideas Of God, But God Himself. We Do Not Need Any More Ideas About God, The World Is Full Of Ideas About God, They Are All Worthless, Because The Ideas Of God In Anyone’s Head Are Of No More Use Than Our Own Ideas. What We Need Is A Real God, Not More Ideas About Him.
Real
Ideas
Needs
The Goal Of Faithfulness Is Not That We Will Do Work For God, But That He Will Be Free To Do His Work Through Us. God Calls Us To His Service And Places Tremendous Responsibilitie S On Us. He Expects No Complaining On Our Part And Offers No Explanation On His Part. God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son.
Son
Goal
Complaining
Don't Waste Time Asking God To Keep You From Doing Things. Don't Do Them.
Waste
Asking
Wasting Time
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.
Faith
Heart
Giving
And It Is Not Repentance That Saves Me — Repentance Is Only The Sign That I Realize What God Has Done Through Christ Jesus.
Jesus
Done
Realizing
Live In A Constant State Of Expectancy, And Leave Room For God To Come In As He Decides.
Rooms
States
Constant
The People Who Influence Us Are Those Who Have Stood Unconsciously For The Right Thing. They Are Like The Stars And The Lilies, And The Joy Of God Flows Through Them All The Time.
Stars
People
Joy
The Real Test Of A Saint Is Not One's Willingness To Preach The Gospel, But One's Willingness To Do Something Like Washing The Disciples' Feet - That Is, Being Willing To Do Those Things That Seem Unimportant In Human Estimation But Count As Everything To God.
Real
Feet
Saint
Every Element Of Our Own Self-reliance Must Be Put To Death By The Power Of God.
Self
Elements
Power Of God
If You Are Going To Be Used By God, He Will Take You Through A Number Of Experiences That Are Not Meant For You Personally At All. They Are Designed To Make You Useful In His Hands, And To Enable You To Understand What Takes Place In The Lives Of Others.
Hands
Numbers
Used
Trust No One, Not Even The Finest Saint Who Ever Walked This Earth, Ignore Him, If He Hinders Your Sight Of Jesus Christ.
Jesus
Trust No One
Sight
No Love Of The Natural Heart Is Safe Unless The Human Heart Has Been Satisfied By God First
Heart
Safe
Firsts
Sin Is Not Weakness, It Is A Disease; It Is Red-handed Rebellion Against God And The Magnitude Of That Rebellion Is Expressed By Calvary's Cross.
Weakness
Disease
Red
Never Try To Help God Fulfill His Word.
Trying
Helping
A Life Of Intimacy With God Is Characterized By Joy.
Joy
Intimacy
Intimacy With God
We Do Not Pray At All Until We Are At Our Wits' End.
Prayer
Praying
Wits End
God Can Never Make Us Wine If We Object To The Fingers He Uses To Crush Us With.
Crush
Wine
Use
Holiness Is The Balance Between My Nature And The Law Of God As Expressed In Jesus Christ.
Jesus
Law
Balance
Doubt Is Not Always A Sign That A Man Is Wrong; It May Be A Sign That He Is Thinking.
Men
Thinking
Doubt
Theology Must Work Itself Out In The Most Practical Relationships.
Theology
Practicals
Prayer Imparts The Power To Walk And Not Faint.
Prayer
Walks
Impart
There Is Nothing To Be Valued More Highly Than To Have People Praying For Us; God Links Up His Power In Answer To Their Prayers.
Prayer
People
Answers
An Unguarded Strength Is A Double Weakness.
Weakness
God Always Ignores The Present Perfection For The Ultimate Perfection.
Perfection
Ultimate
Every Time We Pray Our Horizon Is Altered, Our Attitude To Things Is Altered, Not Sometimes But Every Time, And The Amazing Thing Is That We Don't Pray More.
Prayer
Attitude
Horizon
Character In A Saint Means The Disposition Of Jesus Christ Persistently Manifested.
Jesus
Character
Mean
No Matter Who Or What We Are, God Restores Us To Right Standing With Himself Only By Means Of The Death Of Jesus Christ.
Jesus
Mean
Matter
The Key To The Missionary's Work Is The Authority Of Jesus Christ, Not The Needs Of The Lost. We Are Inclined To Look On Our Lord As One Who Assists Us In Our Endeavors For God. Yet Our Lord Places Himself As The Absolute Sovereign And Supreme Lord Over His Disciples. He Does Not Say That The Lost Will Never Be Saved If We Don't Go- He Simply Says, "go Therefore And Make Disciples Of All The Nations...."
Jesus
Keys
Missionary
Prayer Is God's Answer To Our Poverty, Not A Power We Exercise To Obtain An Answer.
Prayer
Exercise
Answers
What Is The Sign Of A Friend? Is It That He Tells You His Secret Sorrows? No, It Is That He Tells You His Secret Joys. Many People Will Confide Their Secret Sorrows To You, But The Final Mark Of Intimacy Is When They Share Their Secret Joys With You.
People
Joy
Sorrow
By The Supernatural Miracle Of God's Grace I Stand Justified, Not Because I Am Sorry For My Sin, Not Because I Have Repented, But Because Of What Jesus Has Done.
Jesus
Sorry
Sins Not
Prayer Is Simple, Prayer Is Supernatural, And To Anyone Not Related To Our Lord Jesus Christ, Prayer Is Apt To Look Stupid.
Jesus
Prayer
Stupid
Jesus Christ Can Afford To Be Misunderstood; We Cannot. Our Weakness Lies In Always Wanting To Vindicate Ourselves.
Jesus
Lying
Misunderstood
God Answers Prayer On The Ground Of Redemption And On No Other Ground.
Prayer
Redemption
Answers
There Is Only One Way By Which I Can Get Right With God, And That Is Through The Death Of Jesus Christ. I Must Get Rid Of The Underlying Idea That I Can Ever Be Right With God Because Of My Obedience. Who Of Us Could Ever Obey God To Absolute Perfection!
Jesus
Ideas
Perfection
Eternal Life Is Not A Gift From God; Eternal Life Is The Gift Of God.
Life Is
Eternal Life
Gift From God
We Always Know When Jesus Is At Work Because He Produces In The Commonplace Something That Is Inspiring.
Jesus
Produce
Miraculous
With Christ, It Is Not How Much We Give, But What We Do Not Give That Is The Real Test.
Real
Giving
Tests
Service Is The Overflow Which Pours From A Life Filled With Love And Devotion.
Devotion
Overflow
Filled
All Heaven Is Interested In The Cross Of Christ, All Hell Terribly Afraid Of It, While Men Are The Only Beings Who More Or Less Ignore Its Meaning.
Christian
Easter
Men
Conscience Is The Internal Perception Of God's Moral Law.
Law
Perception
Moral
If I Obey Jesus Christ, The Redemption Of God Will Flow Through Me To The Lives Of Others, Because Behind The Deed Of Obedience Is The Reality Of Almighty God.
Jesus
Reality
Redemption
If We Are To Be Ready For Jesus Christ, We Have To Stop Being Religious (that Is, Using Religion As A Higher Kind Of Culture) And Be Spiritually Real.
Religious
Jesus
Real
It Is Much Easier To Do Something Than To Trust In God. That Is Why There Are So Few Fellow Workers With God And So Many Workers For Him. We Would Far Rather Work For God Than Believe In Him.
Believe
Trust In God
Easier
Is He Going To Help Himself To Your Life, Or Are You Taken Up With Your Conception Of What You Are Going To Do? God Is Responsible For Our Lives, And The One Great Keynote Is Reckless Reliance Upon Him.
Taken
Helping
Reckless
To Silence The Voice Of God Is Damnation In Time!
Voice
Silence
Damnation
When A Man’s Heart Is Right With God The Mysterious Utterances Of The Bible Are Spirit And Life To Him. Spiritual Truth Is Discernible Only To A Pure Heart, Not To A Keen Intellect. It Is Not A Question Of Profundity Of Intellect, But Of Purity Of Heart.
Spiritual
Heart
Men
The Greatest Word Of Jesus To His Disciples Is Abandon
Jesus
Abandon
Disciple
All Our Fret And Worry Is Caused By Calculating Without God.
Worry
Calculating
Without God
The Characteristic Of The New Birth Is That I Yield Myself So Completely To God That Christ Is Formed In Me.
Yield
Birth
Christ
We Think We Understand Another Person's Struggle Until God Reveals The Same Shortcomings In Our Lives.
Struggle
Helping Others
Thinking
I Cannot Give Up My Will - I Must Exercise It, Putting It Into Action.
Giving Up
Exercise
Action
If Sin Rules In Me, God's Life In Me Will Be Killed; If God Rules In Me, Sin In Me Will Be Killed.
Sin
Ifs
Your Priorities Must Be God First, God Second, And God Third, Until Your Life Is Continually Face To Face With God.
Priorities
Faces
Firsts
Narrow All Your Interests Until The Attitude Of Mind And Heart And Body Is Concentration On Jesus Christ.
Jesus
Attitude
Heart
If In Preaching The Gospel You Substitute Your Knowledge Of The Way Of Salvation For Confidence In The Power Of The Gospel, You Hinder People From Getting To Reality.
Reality
Preaching The Gospel
People
Faith That Is Sure Of Itself Is Not Faith; Faith That Is Sure Of God Is The Only Faith There Is.
Our Lord Insists On The Social Aspect Of Our Lives: He Shows Very Distinctly That We Cannot Further Ourselves Alone.
Lord
Social
Aspect
Eternal Life Is Not A Gift From God; Eternal Life Is The Gift Of God. The Energy And The Power Which Was So Very Evident In Jesus Will Be Exhibited In Us By An Act Of The Absolute Sovereign Grace Of God, Once We Have Made That Complete And Effective Decision About Sin. We Have To Keep Letting Go, And Slowly, But Surely, The Great Full Life Of God Will Invade Us, Penetrating Every Part.
Letting Go
Jesus
Decision
Our Lord Never Referred To Unanswered Prayer. He Taught That Prayers Are Always Answered: “everyone Who Asks Receives”. And He Implied That Prayers Are Answered Rightly Because Of The Heavenly Father's Wisdom: “your Father Knows The Things You Have Need Of Before You Ask Him”.
Prayer
Father
Taught
The Cross Is The Central Event In Time And Eternity, And The Answer To All The Problems Of Both.
Events
Answers
Problem
Continually Revise Your Relationship To God Until The Only Certainty You Have Is Not That You Are Faithful, But That He Is.
Faithful
Our Relationship
Certainty
The Way To Grow Strong In Christ Is To Become Weak In Yourself.
Christian
Strong
Way
Once The Call Of God Comes To You, Start Going And Never Stop.
There Is Nothing Attractive About The Gospel To The Natural Man; The Only Man Who Finds The Gospel Attractive Is The Man Who Is Convicted Of Sin.
Men
Sin
He Man
Watch Where Jesus Went. The One Dominant Note In His Life Was To Do His Father's Will. His Was Not The Way Of Wisdom Or Of Success, But The Way Of Faithfulness.
Jesus
Father
Way
The Nature Of Faith Is That It Must Be Tried.
God Can Do Nothing For Me Until I Recognize The Limits Of What Is Humanly Possible, Allowing Him To Do The Impossible.
God
Christian
Limits
If A Man Cannot Prove His Religion In The Valley, It Is Not Worth Anything.
Men
Valleys
Prove
It Is Not True To Say That God Wants To Teach Us Something In Our Trials. Through Every Cloud He Brings Our Way, He Wants Us To Unlearn Something.
Clouds
Trials
Want
When A Man Is At His Wits' End It Is Not A Cowardly Thing To Pray, It Is The Only Way He Can Get In Touch With Reality.
Prayer
Reality
Men
Our Circumstances Are The Means God Uses To Exhibit Just How Wonderfully Perfect And Extraordinarily Pure His Son Is.
Mean
Son
Perfect
It Is Impossible To Live The Life Of A Disciple Without Definite Times Of Secret Prayer. You Will Find That The Place To Enter In Is In Your Business, As You Walk Along The Streets, In The Ordinary Ways Of Life, When No One Dreams You Are Praying, And The Reward Comes Openly, A Revival Here, A Blessing There.
Dream
Prayer
Live Life
The Heart Of Salvation Is The Cross Of Christ. The Reason Salvation Is So Easy To Obtain Is That It Cost God So Much. The Cross Was The Place Where God And Sinful Man Merged With A Tremendous Collision And Where The Way To Life Was Opened. But All The Cost And Pain Of The Collision Was Absorbed By The Heart Of God.
Pain
Heart
Men
There Are Not Three Stages In Spiritual Life-worship, Waiting, And Work. Some Of Us Go In Jumps Like Spiritual Frogs. We Jump From Worship To Waiting To Work. God's Idea Is That The Three Should Go Together. They Were Always Together In The Life Of Our Lord.
Spiritual
Ideas
Waiting
God Speaks In The Language You Know Best - Not Through Your Ears, But Through Your Circumstances.
Ears
Language
Speak
Many Of Us Refuse To Grow Where We Are Put; Consequently, We Take Root Nowhere.
Roots
Grows
Refuse
Sanctification Is Not My Idea Of What I Want God To Do For Me; Sanctification Is God’s Idea Of What He Wants To Do For Me.
Ideas
Want
Sanctification
Christianity Is Not Consistency To Conscience Or To Convictions; Christianity Is Being True To Jesus Christ.
Jesus
Consistency
Christianity
God Makes Us As Broken Bread And Poured-out Wine To Please Him. Beware Of Competing Calls Once The Call Of God Grips You.
Wine
Broken
Bread
If You Are Going On With God, The Only Thing That Is Clear To You, And The Only Thing God Intends To Be Clear, Is The Way He Deals With Your Own Soul.
Soul
Way
Clear
The Christian Who Is Truly Intimate With Jesus Will Never Draw Attention To Himself But Will Only Show The Evidence Of A Life Where Jesus Is Completely In Control. This Is The Outcome Of Allowing Jesus To Satisfy Every Area Of Life To Its Depth. The Picture Resulting From Such A Life Is That Of The Strong, Calm Balance That Our Lord Gives To Those Who Are Intimate With Him.
Christian
Strong
Jesus
The Whole Meaning Of Prayer Is That We May Know God.
God
Faith
Religious
If We Understood What Happens When We Use The Word Of God, We Would Use It Oftener.
Christian
Use
Word Of God
Prayer Is Simple, As Simple As A Child Making Known Its Wants To It Parents.
Prayer
Children
Simple
Jesus Christ Founded His Kingdom On The Weakest Link Of All-a Baby.
Baby
Jesus
Links
Our Lord's First Obedience Was To The Will Of His Father, Not To The Needs Of Men; The Saving Of Men Was The Natural Outcome Of His Obedience To The Father.
Spiritual
Father
Men
I Have To Get To The Point Of The Absolute And Unquestionable Relationship That Takes Everything Exactly As It Comes From Him. God Never Guides Us At Some Time In The Future, But Always Here And Now. Realize That The Lord Is Here Now, And The Freedom You Receive Is Immediate.
Realizing
Lord
Guides
True Intercession Involves Bringing The Person, Or The Circumstance That Seems To Be Crashing In On You, Before God, Until You Are Changed By His Attitude Toward That Person Or Circumstance. People Describe Intercession By Saying, "it Is Putting Yourself In Someone Else’s Place." That Is Not True! Intercession Is Putting Yourself In God’s Place; It Is Having His Mind And His Perspective.
Attitude
People
Perspective
The People Who Influence Us Most Are Not Those Who Buttonhole Us And Talk To Us, But Those Who Live Their Lives Like The Stars In Heaven And The Lilies In The Field, Perfectly Simply And Unaffectedly. Those Are The Lives That Mould
Stars
People
Heaven
Service Is The Overflow Which Pours From A Life Filled With Love And Devotion. But Strictly Speaking, There Is No Call To That. Service Is What I Bring To The Relationship And Is The Reflection Of My Identification With The Nature Of God.
Reflection
Devotion
Identification
It Is A Life Of Faith, Not Of Intellect And Reason, But A Life Of Knowing Who Makes Us “go.
Knowing
Reason
Intellect
The Great Thing About Faith In God Is That It Keeps A Man Undisturbed In The Midst Of Disturbance.
Men
Faith In God
Midst
When A Man Says He Must Develop A Holy Life Alone With God, He Is Of No More Use To His Fellow Men: He Puts Himself On A Pedestal, Away From The Common Run Of Men.........if We Are Abandoned To Jesus, We Have No Ends Of Our Own To Serve.
Running
Jesus
Men
We Trample The Blood Of The Son Of God Underfoot If We Think We Are Forgiven Because We Are Sorry For Our Sins.
Sorry
Son
Thinking
We All Know People Who Have Been Made Much Meaner And More Irritable And More Intolerable To Live With By Suffering: It Is Not Right To Say That All Suffering Perfects. It Only Perfects One Type Of Person ...... The One Who Accepts The Call Of God In Christ Jesus.
Jesus
Pain
People
When Once You Realize All That It Cost God To Forgive You, You Will Be Held As In A Vice, Constrained By The Love Of God.
Forgiving
Vices
Cost
Never Allow Anything That Divides Or Destroys The Oneness Of Your Life With Christ To Remain In Your Life Without Facing It.
Oneness
Christ
Divides
We Are Only What We Are In The Dark; All The Rest Is Reputation.
Dark
Reputation
The Bible Is Not A Book That You Can Open And Say, 'now, Lord, Put Some Magic Into My Soul That Will Open Up The Meaning Of This Book.' There Is Only One Way Really To Understand The Word, And That Is Through Wrestling With The Circumstances And Happenings Of Life.
Book
Wrestling
Soul
Watch Human Nature; We Are So Built That If We Do Not Get Thrilled In The Right Way, We Will Get Thrilled In The Wrong. If We Are Without The Thrill Of Communion With God, We Will Try To Get Thrilled By The Devil, Or By Some Concoction Of Human Ingenuity.
Trying
Devil
Watches
The God Who Guides The Stars, Unhasting And Unresting, Will As Assuredly Fulfill What He Has Promised.
Stars
Guides
The Moment We Recognize Our Complete Weakness And Our Dependence Upon Him Will Be The Very Moment That The Spirit Of God Will Exhibit His Power.
Weakness
Spirit
Moments
The Greatest Answer To Prayer Is That I Am Brought Into A Perfect Understanding With God, And That Alters My View Of Actual Things.
Prayer
Views
Perfect
One Man Or Woman Called Of God Is Worth A Hundred Who Have Elected To Work For God.
Men
Hundred
One Man
God Does Not Exist To Answer Our Prayers, But By Our Prayers We Come To Discern The Mind Of God.
Prayer
Mind
Answers
In Times Of Prosperity We Are Apt To Forget God; We Imagine It Does Not Matter Whether We Recognise Him Or Not. As Long As We Are Comfortably Clothed And Fed And Looked After, Our Civilisation Becomes An Elaborate Means Of Ignoring God.
Mean
Long
Doe
We Preach To Men As If They Were Conscious They Were Dying Sinners, They Are Not; They Are Having A Good Time.
Men
Dying
Good Times
We Tend To Set Up Success In Christian Work As Our Purpose, But Our Purpose Should Be To Display The Glory Of God In Human Life, To Live A Life "hidden With Christ In God" In Our Everyday Human Conditions.
Faith
Christian
Inspiration
Prayer Is Not Getting Things From God. That Is A Most Initial Stage; Prayer Is Getting Into Perfect Communion With God: I Tell Him What I Know He Knows In Order That I May Get To Know It As He Does.
Prayer
Order
Perfect
There Is No Condition Of Life In Which We Cannot Abide In Jesus. We Have To Learn To Abide In Him Wherever We Are Placed.
Jesus
Conditions
It Must Be God First, God Second, And God Third
Firsts
God First
Thirds
When God Gives You A Vision And Darkness Follows, Wait. God Will Bring The Vision He Has Given You To Reality In Your Life If You Will Wait On His Timing. Never Try To Help God Fulfill His Word
Reality
Giving
Waiting
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.
Jesus
Men
Understanding
The Voice Of The Spirit Is As Gentle As A Zephyr, So Gentle That Unless You Are Living In Perfect Communion With God, You Never Hear It.
Voice
Perfect
Zephyr
Refusing To Be Disillusioned Is The Cause Of Much Of The Suffering Of Human Life. And This Is How That Suffering Happens-if We Love Someone, But Do Not Love God, We Demand Total Perfection And Righteousness From That Person, And When We Do Not Get It, We Become Cruel And Vindictive; Yet We Are Demanding Of A Human Being Which He Or She Cannot Possibly Give.
Faith
Religious
Giving
The Strain Of Life Is What Builds Our Strength. If There Is No Strain, There Will Be No Strength.
Life Is
Strain
Ifs
If We Were Never Depressed We Should Not Be Alive; It Is The Nature Of A Crystal Never To Be Depressed.
Crystals
Alive
Should
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


Trending Author
George Crabbe
Chris Jericho
Shirin Ebadi
Norm MacDonald
Gabriel Heatter
Dan Chaon
Category
Information