Oswald Chambers
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.Collection: Struggle
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.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Prayer
Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.Collection: Dream
The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.Collection: World
The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.Collection: Pain
There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.Collection: Christ
The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.Collection: Crisis
The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His Love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but to "to reveal His Son in meCollection: Son
Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.Collection: Faith
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.Collection: Grace
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.Collection: Blessing
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.Collection: Relationship
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.Collection: Rivers
No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.Collection: Jesus
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.Collection: Prayer
Don't read to remember; read to realize.Collection: Remember
All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.Collection: People
Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.Collection: Taken
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.Collection: Trying
The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.Collection: Prayer
Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.Collection: Hinder
God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.Collection: Giving
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.Collection: Life Is
The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.Collection: Abiding
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.Collection: Dark
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.Collection: Christian
Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.Collection: Faith
God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.Collection: Suits
The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.Collection: Religious
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.Collection: Faith
God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.Collection: Prayer
If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.Collection: Sin
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.Collection: Christian
There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.Collection: Jesus
The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.Collection: Prayer
When you fear God you fear nothing else!Collection: Fear Nothing
Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.Collection: Break Through
We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not...What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.Collection: Ideas
The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.Collection: Lasts
We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.Collection: Mean
Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.Collection: Doe
If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.Collection: Real
If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.Collection: Men
God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.Collection: Spiritual
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.Collection: Blessing
We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.Collection: Jesus
It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.Collection: Attention
As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.Collection: Faith