Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
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The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.
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When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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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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Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.
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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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If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.
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Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.
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The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
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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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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...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
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You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
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Are you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you should wait until you can clearly see how to do what He has asked? Simply obey Him with unrestrained joy. When He tells you something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a misunderstanding of what honors Him and what doesn't. Are you faithful to Jesus, or faithful to your ideas about Him?
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Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
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When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
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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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Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.