Oswald Chambers Quotes
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.
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We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?
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Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.
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Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
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The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.
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The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.
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The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
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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.
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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.
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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.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.
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A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.
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The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
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We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.