Quotes from Oswald Chambers

When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

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

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

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.

Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

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

Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

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

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

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

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

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

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.