Oswald Chambers Quotes
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We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.
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Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.
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The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
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If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
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The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'
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Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
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It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
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When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.
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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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Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
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It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
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Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.
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And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
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If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
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Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
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As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.