Oswald Chambers Quotes

The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

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

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

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

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

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

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.

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

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

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

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.

When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.

Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility.

A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.