Oswald Chambers Quotes

How many people have you made homesick for God?

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.

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.

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

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

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

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

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.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.

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

Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

Remember whose you are and whom you serve.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

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

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

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

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

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

There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.