Oswald Chambers
Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.Collection: Jesus
To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.Collection: Believe
There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.Collection: Ifs
The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.Collection: Jesus
We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.Collection: Deeds
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Faith
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Suffering
My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.Collection: Jesus
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.Collection: Prayer
Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.Collection: Spiritual
Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.Collection: Jesus
It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.Collection: Christian
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.Collection: Mean
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.Collection: Prayer
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.Collection: Law
Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.Collection: Spiritual
All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.Collection: Christian
By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.Collection: Jesus
Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?Collection: Christian
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.Collection: Suffering
The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.Collection: God
Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Men
It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.Collection: Character
Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.Collection: Religious
An unguarded strength is a double weakness.Collection: Weakness
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.Collection: Waiting
To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.Collection: Enemy
The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.Collection: Miracle
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.Collection: Training
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.Collection: People
Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.Collection: Jesus
Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.Collection: Lord
Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'Collection: Jesus
Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.Collection: Wine
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.Collection: Religious
When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.Collection: Reality
What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.Collection: Needs
Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.Collection: Prayer
Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.Collection: Faithful
God wants to use us as He used His own SonCollection: Christian
The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.Collection: Stars
Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.Collection: Bartering
Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.Collection: Lord
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeedCollection: Jesus