Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.
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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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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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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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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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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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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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We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
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The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
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If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
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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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Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
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Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.
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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. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.
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When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
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If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
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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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If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.
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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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If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.
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The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.
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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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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.