Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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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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To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.
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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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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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Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.
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We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
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If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.
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It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.
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The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
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Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
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God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.
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The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.
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The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
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God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.
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It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
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Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.
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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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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.