Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
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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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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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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.
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The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
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We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
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When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
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No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
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Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.
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Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
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To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.
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If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
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If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.
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God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.
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We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.
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Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.
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Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
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We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
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Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.
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When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
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The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
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Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
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Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.
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God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.