Oswald Chambers
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.Collection: God
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.Collection: Knowledge
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.Collection: Happiness
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.Collection: God
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.Collection: God
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'Collection: God
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.Collection: Brainy
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.Collection: Faith
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.Collection: Education
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.Collection: Amazing
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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.
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.
We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.Collection: Want
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.Collection: If There Is A God
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.Collection: Spiritual
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.Collection: Hands
Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.Collection: Life
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.Collection: Men
Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.Collection: Capacity
The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.Collection: Character
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.Collection: Loss
We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Collection: Want
God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.Collection: Ears
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.Collection: Jesus
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.Collection: Inspirational
We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.Collection: Battle
God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.Collection: Complaining
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.Collection: Jesus
If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.Collection: Jesus
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.Collection: Past
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.Collection: Solitude
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.Collection: Inspirational
Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.Collection: Real
Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.Collection: Jesus
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.Collection: Worry
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.Collection: God
Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.Collection: Morning
Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.Collection: God
'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.Collection: Greatness
There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.Collection: Inspirational
The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.Collection: Real
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.Collection: Teaching
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.Collection: Holiness
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.Collection: Christian
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.Collection: Roots
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.Collection: Loyalty
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.Collection: Clouds