Oswald Chambers
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.Collection: Health
Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.Collection: Waste
Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.Collection: Spiritual
One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.Collection: Prayer
The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.Collection: Jesus
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.Collection: Earthquakes
The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.Collection: Jesus
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.Collection: God
It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.Collection: Dream
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.Collection: Jesus
The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.Collection: People
Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.Collection: Air
The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.Collection: Overcoming
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.Collection: Suffering
God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.Collection: God
There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.Collection: Men
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.Collection: God
If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.Collection: Dog
Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.Collection: Giving
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.Collection: Best Friend
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.Collection: Prayer
Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.Collection: Two
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.Collection: Prayer
Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.Collection: Spiritual
If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.Collection: Blessing
Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.Collection: Jesus
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.Collection: Life Is
Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.Collection: Soul
If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.Collection: Jesus
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.Collection: Life Is
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.Collection: Spiritual
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.Collection: Men
Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith up to the point of our physical death, which is the last great test. Faith is absolute trust in God-trust that could never imagine that He would forsake us.Collection: Believe
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.Collection: Jesus
If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.Collection: Sweet
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.Collection: Heart
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...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.Collection: Song
The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.Collection: Christian
Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.Collection: Water
Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.Collection: God
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.Collection: Judging
God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.Collection: Faith
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.Collection: Self
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.Collection: Jesus
Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?Collection: Listening
There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.Collection: Heart
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.Collection: Self
We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.Collection: Essence