991 Quotes by Oswald Chambers

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.

God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. ‘All my fresh springs shall be in thee.’

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim – not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says – I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

The love of God and the wrath of God are obverse sides of the same thing, like two sides of a coin. The wrath of God is as positive as His love. God cannot be in agreement with sin. When a man is severed from God, the basis of his moral life is chaos and wrath not because God is angry, like a Moloch; rather it is His constitution of things. The wrath of God abides all the time a man persists in the way that leads away from God; the second he turns, he is faced with His love.

Prayer is God’s answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary’s cross.

There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you – and His experiments always succeed.