The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
Oswald ChambersPaul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
Oswald ChambersThe vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
Oswald ChambersThe one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
Oswald ChambersSpiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.
Oswald Chambers