Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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.
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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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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Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
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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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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.
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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 be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
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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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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.
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We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.
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The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
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Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.
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The nature of faith is that it must be tried.
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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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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
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There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.
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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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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 not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.
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We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.