Quotes from Oswald Chambers

Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God's Word.

The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.

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

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.