Oswald Chambers Quotes

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

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.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

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

If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.

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.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

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.

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.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.

Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

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

I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. 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.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having - viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

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

It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?

Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.

Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

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

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

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 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 heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

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

The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

By realizing the reality of our Prince within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand ourselves, or that other people do not understand us. The only One who truly understands me is the One who made me and who redeems me... It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of every kind of self-consideration and learn to care about only one thing - the relationship between our Prince and ourselves.

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

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

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

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

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.