Quotes from Oswald Chambers

When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.