Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest Quotes
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He’s continually working out His ultimate perfection for you...
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.
We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.
The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.
To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.
It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet.
Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.
The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control.
Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.
Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.
Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.
Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.
The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.
When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.
Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.
We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.
... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.
It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.
Dec. 31… “Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.
The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.
Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.
...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.
Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.
Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.
If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.
The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.
We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.