Quotes from Oswald Chambers

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

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

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us "go.

The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.