Quotes from Oswald Chambers

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.