Quotes by Oswald Chambers

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

“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”

“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.”

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

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

“When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.”

“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.”

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

“Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.”

“Certain things can only be dealt with by ignoring them; if you face them you increase their power. It is absurd to say, Pray about them; when once a thing is seen to be wrong, dont pray about it, it fixes the mind on it; never for a second brood on it, destroy it by neglect.”

“I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.”

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

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

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

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.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Dont forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.