991 Quotes by Oswald Chambers

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.