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“God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for Everyday

“We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for Everyday

“God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows.”
― Tim Keller

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.”
― Timothy Keller , Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

“Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“ 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.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship— when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“We seem to think that God wants us to give up things!... God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having ---- viz., life with Himself.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“we tell the truth and keep our promises simply out of love for the One who died for us, who kept a promise despite the unfathomable suffering it brought him.”
― Timothy Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.”
― Tim Keller

“He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He should seem to be afraid of some other kind. No. He accepted and bore upon the cross a death inflicted by others, and those other His special enemies, a death which to them was supremely terrible and by no means to be faced; and He did this in order that, by destroying even this death, He might Himself be believed to be the Life, and the power of death be recognised as finally annulled. A marvellous and mighty paradox has thus occurred, for the death which they thought to inflict on Him as dishonour and disgrace has become the glorious monument to death's defeat.”
― St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation

“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.”
― Oswald Chambers

“To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.”
― Oswald Chambers