Oswald Chambers Quotes

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.

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. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R

We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

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.

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job and it will never be done unless we do it.

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? 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?

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

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.

We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone’s prayer, prayed perhaps centuries ago.It is more and more impossible to me to have programmes and plans because God alone has the plan, and our plans are only apt to hinder Him, and make it necessary for Him to break them up. I have the unspeakable knowledge that my life is the answer to prayers, and that God is blessing me and making me a blessing entirely of His sovereign grace and nothing to do with my merits, saving as I am bold enough to trust His leading and not the dictates of my own wisdom and common sense.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

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.

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.

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.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.