Oswald Chambers Quotes

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

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

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

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

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

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.

We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

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

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.

The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

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

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

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

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.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.

Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'

Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.

There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.

Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.

I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

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.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.