Quotes from Oswald Chambers

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

When you fear God you fear nothing else!

If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.