Oswald Chambers Quotes

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

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

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 I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.

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

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

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

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

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.

The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

Some of the qualities of #‎ God must be merged into us before our #‎ prayers can be fit for His acceptance.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

Don't read to remember; read to realize.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.