Oswald Chambers Quotes

A river reaches places its source never knows.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

The nature of faith is that it must be tried.

Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.

Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".

Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.

Begin to know Him now, and finish never

Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.

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.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R

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.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys, ” but as our Father.

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.

He comes where He commands us to leave.

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.

Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.

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.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

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.

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

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.

Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.

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.