Oswald Chambers Quotes

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

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.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

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

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

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.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

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.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

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

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.