991 Quotes by Oswald Chambers

Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

We are here for God’s designs, not for our own.

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason – – these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit.

There are certain things we must not pray about – moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

God has one destined end for mankind – holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to “be seen of men”.

We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life “hidden with Christ in God” in our everyday human conditions.

We must learn to live in the ordinary ‘gray’ day according to what we saw on the mountain.