Oswald Chambers Quotes

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.

Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

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

When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

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

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

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

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

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

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

Don't read to remember; read to realize.

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

Some of the qualities of #‎ God must be merged into us before our #‎ prayers can be fit for His acceptance.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

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.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.