Oswald Chambers Quotes

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

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

You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.

The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.