It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Oswald ChambersThere are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.
Oswald ChambersGod has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
Oswald Chambers