Quotes from Oswald Chambers

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me.

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.

We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.

We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.