Top 757 Quotes & Sayings by Oswald Chambers - Page 9

Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, each one of us is a mystery. There is only One Who understands you, and that is God. Hand yourself over to Him.

There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get rid of the underlying idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience. Who of us could ever obey God to absolute perfection!

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

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

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 great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.

But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

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

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

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

Prayer is an effort of will.

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

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

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

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

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

Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

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

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

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

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

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

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

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

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don't agree with us.

God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other than God's way; but the wonderful Spirit of God will remove confusion and enable us to see that the only means to obtain the experience of entire sanctification by faith is the grace of God.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.

If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

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

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.