Oswald Chambers Quotes

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus...

Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time...

Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—goo...

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

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but...

Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help G...

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my b...

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us t...

Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no m...

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have,...

Human nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement ...

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiratio...

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that a...

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

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

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wh...

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear...

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I...

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly ...

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature o...

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an und...

A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hel...

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in pers...

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in t...

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plan...

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think o...

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and t...

You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His...

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of ...

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of p...

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask then He w...

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us....

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we ...

Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning o...

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God ha...

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing ...

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever im...

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

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

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by th...

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an a...

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is mu...

your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times ...

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that ma...

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate and...

We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Hi...

There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual expe...

We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we ...

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the da...

Prayer is not only asking it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is...

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray wh...

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

Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for doe...

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 ...

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condi...

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it al...

I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spi...

Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but ever...

No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that th...

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to...

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and you...

As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the be...

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists...

God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hear...

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. ...

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say...

Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that;...

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and...

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.

In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7Beware of the pleasant view of the ...

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right wi...

We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith...

The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain sp...

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actu...

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our right...

Remember whose you are and whom you serve.

To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not l...

The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.