Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.
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There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.
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We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.
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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.
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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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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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Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
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Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.
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Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
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If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.
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A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.
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Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
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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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If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.
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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.
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God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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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 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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Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?
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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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The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.