Oswald Chambers Quotes

When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.

The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

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.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.

The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

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?

Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.

A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.