Oswald Chambers Quotes
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.
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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.
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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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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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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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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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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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Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
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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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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.
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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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Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.
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Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
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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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Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
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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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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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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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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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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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When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
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The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.