Quotes from Oswald Chambers

When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.

Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.