Oswald Chambers Quotes (20 Quotes)

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

Certain things can only be dealt with by ignoring them if you face them you increase their power. It is absurd to say, Pray about them when once a thing is seen to be wrong, don't pray about it, it fixes the mind on it never for a second brood on it, destroy it by neglect.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

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

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

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

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

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

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

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. ''In your patience possess your souls.''

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.

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

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Earnestness is not by any means everything it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do Gods work in our own way.