Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.
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One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
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We are here for God's designs, not for our own.
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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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When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
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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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Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.
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A river reaches places its source never knows.
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.
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We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
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Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”
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We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.
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One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.
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Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
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If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior.
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The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
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We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
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No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.
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The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.
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God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
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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.