Oswald Chambers Quotes

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.

Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.

Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.

Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

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

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.