Quotes from Oswald Chambers

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

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

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

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

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

Speak, Lord"; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, "Speak, Lord."

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'

Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.

Trust God, and do the next thing.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.

Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.