Oswald Chambers Quotes

You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

~ Oswald Chambers

Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.

~ Oswald Chambers

No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go.

~ Oswald Chambers

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

~ Oswald Chambers

God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, . . . who will go for Us? The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

~ Oswald Chambers

...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.

~ Oswald Chambers

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

~ Oswald Chambers

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

~ Oswald Chambers

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.

~ Oswald Chambers

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

~ Oswald Chambers

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

~ Oswald Chambers

Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus.

~ Oswald Chambers

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

~ Oswald Chambers

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

~ Oswald Chambers

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

~ Oswald Chambers

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.

~ Oswald Chambers

We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.

~ Oswald Chambers

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

~ Oswald Chambers

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.

~ Oswald Chambers

Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses the conscience and brings him into the presence of God, it is not his relationship with men that bothers him, but his relationship with God.

~ Oswald Chambers

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

~ Oswald Chambers

We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.

~ Oswald Chambers

The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

~ Oswald Chambers

To follow Jesus today is to follow a madman according to the ideals of present day civilization. We have the idea that our civilization is God-ordained, whereas it has been built up by ourselves. We have made a thousand and one necessities until our system of civilized life is as cast iron, and then we apologize to the Lord for not following Him.

~ Oswald Chambers

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

~ Oswald Chambers

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

~ Oswald Chambers

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

~ Oswald Chambers

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

~ Oswald Chambers

It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet.

~ Oswald Chambers

Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

~ Oswald Chambers

Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.

~ Oswald Chambers

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are, it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

~ Oswald Chambers

At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered for My sake. Many of us awaken antagonism by our way of stating things; we have to distinguish between being persecuted for some notion of our own and being persecuted “for My sake.

~ Oswald Chambers

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here.

~ Oswald Chambers

There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone...Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him.

~ Oswald Chambers

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

~ Oswald Chambers

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus, to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

~ Oswald Chambers

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.

~ Oswald Chambers

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

~ Oswald Chambers

God is not preparing you for anything, obedience is its own end in the purpose of God, be faithful to Him.

~ Oswald Chambers