Oswald Chambers Quotes
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With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.
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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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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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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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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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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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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 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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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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The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
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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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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 real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.
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Prayer is an effort of will.
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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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The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
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Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.
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Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
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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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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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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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The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.
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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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When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.