Oswald Chambers
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.Collection: Mean
We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.Collection: Divine Guidance
The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandonCollection: Jesus
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.Collection: Ordinary
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.Collection: Jesus
When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.Collection: Prayer
The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.Collection: Jesus
The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.Collection: Christian
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.Collection: Knowing
The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.Collection: Book
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.Collection: Song
To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.Collection: Jesus
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.Collection: Prayer
The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.Collection: Christian
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.Collection: Dark
Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.Collection: Jesus
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.Collection: Attitude
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mouldCollection: Stars
God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?Collection: Father
Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.Collection: Religious
Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.Collection: Abiding
The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.Collection: Gratitude
God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.Collection: Giving
The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.Collection: Jesus
Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.Collection: Inspiration
Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.Collection: Doe
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 full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.Collection: God
We are here for God's designs, not for our ownCollection: Design
With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.Collection: Real
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.Collection: Christian
There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.Collection: Prayer
One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.Collection: God
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.Collection: Jesus
Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.Collection: Jesus
Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.Collection: Dream
What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.Collection: People
Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.Collection: Prayer
The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.Collection: Faith
Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.Collection: Rooms
We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.Collection: Struggle
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.Collection: Prayer
When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His wordCollection: Reality
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.Collection: Jesus
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.Collection: Jesus
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.Collection: Prayer
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.Collection: Character
At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.Collection: Doors
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.Collection: Prayer
A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!Collection: Jesus