Oswald Chambers Quotes

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.

Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.

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.'

No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.

For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him

We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

Trust God, and do the next thing.

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.