991 Quotes by Oswald Chambers

The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.

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.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.