Oswald Chambers Quotes
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A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.
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When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
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My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.
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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
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The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.
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People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.
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Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
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Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
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The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.
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There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.
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Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
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Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing.
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My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
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God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
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Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
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Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.
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God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.