Quotes by Oswald Chambers

This total surrender to the love of Christ is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of Gods holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness.

To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.

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

When it is a question of Gods almighty Spirit, never say, I cant.

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.

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

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

“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.”