Oswald Chambers Quotes

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.

Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

The good is always the enemy of the best.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.

There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.

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.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?

A ready person never needs to get ready.