Quotes from Oswald Chambers

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.

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

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.

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

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

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

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

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

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

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.