Quotes by Oswald Chambers

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.

... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

The show business, which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lords conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

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. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

Jesus doesnt bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see Gods children starving while actually seated at the Fathers table.

Dec. 31… “Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.

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.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when theres nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We dont want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of good time is seldom in sync with ours.

I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone’s prayer, prayed perhaps centuries ago.It is more and more impossible to me to have programmes and plans because God alone has the plan, and our plans are only apt to hinder Him, and make it necessary for Him to break them up. I have the unspeakable knowledge that my life is the answer to prayers, and that God is blessing me and making me a blessing entirely of His sovereign grace and nothing to do with my merits, saving as I am bold enough to trust His leading and not the dictates of my own wisdom and common sense.

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.