Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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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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The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
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The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'
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You do not know what you are going to do,the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder-you do not know what God is going to do next.
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The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.
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Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.
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Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.
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There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.
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Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.
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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
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Prayer is an effort of will.
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Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.
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We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
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One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.
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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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A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
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It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!
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God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.