991 Quotes by Oswald Chambers

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

Do you believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Are you willing to let Him?

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don't go- He simply says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations...."

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.