Quotes from Oswald Chambers

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

All of God's people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.

Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.