Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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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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The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
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We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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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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It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
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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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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.
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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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Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
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We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.
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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 not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
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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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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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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.
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Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, each one of us is a mystery. There is only One Who understands you, and that is God. Hand yourself over to Him.
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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 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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It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
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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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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.