When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
Oswald ChambersBut the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.
Oswald ChambersJesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
Oswald ChambersGod does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.
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