Quotes from Oswald Chambers

It is impossible to carry on your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.

Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation.

If we deliberately choose to obey God, then He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with all His almighty power.

Are you loyal to Jesus or loyal to your notion of Him?

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

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. His purpose in using the cloud is to simplify our beliefs until our relationship with Him is exactly like that of a child—a relationship simply between God and our own souls, and where other people are but shadows.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life." Oswald Chambers

Are we prepared to pray with Murray McCheyne, "Lord, make me as holy as Thou canst make a sinner saved by grace"?

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

The most devout among us become atheistic in this connection; we do not believe God, we enthrone common sense and tack the name of God on to it. We do lean to our own understanding, instead of trusting God with all our hearts.

God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

There is nothing thrilling about a laboring person's work, but it is the laboring person who makes the ideas of the genius possible. And it is the laboring saint who makes the ideas of his Master possible. When you labor at prayer, from God's perspective there are always results. What an astonishment it will be to see, once the veil is finally lifted, all the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you have been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ.

Get into the habit of saying. "Speak, Lord," and life will become a romance.

Substitution is always twofold—not only is Jesus Christ identified with my sin, but I am so identified with Him that the disposition which ruled Him is in me.

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.

May God stop the preachers with moral measuring rods. Down with them! We need broken-hearted preachers with an awful conviction of sin, preachers who cry, "My God! My God! Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned!

When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.

When the natural power of vision is devoted to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the power of perceiving God's will and the whole life is kept in simplicity.

God does not give us overcoming life—He gives us life as we overcome.

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

God does not give us overcoming life—He gives us life as we overcome. The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength. Are you asking God to give you life, liberty, and joy? He cannot, unless you are willing to accept the strain. And once you face the strain, you will immediately get the strength. Overcome your own timidity and take the first step.

A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances simply happen at random, nor does he ever think of his life as being divided into the secular and the sacred. He sees every situation in which he finds himself as the means of obtaining a greater knowledge of Jesus Christ, and he has an attitude of unrestrained abandon and total surrender about him.

No one is born either naturally or supernaturally with character; it must be developed.

The things that are right, noble, and good from the natural standpoint are the very things that keep us from being God's best. Once we come to understand that natural moral excellence opposes or counteracts surrender to God, we bring our soul into the center of its greatest battle.