Oswald Chambers Quotes
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It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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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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Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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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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Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.
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Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.
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God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.
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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.
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God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
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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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A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
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The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
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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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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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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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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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Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
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Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
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The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.
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Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.
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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.