991 Quotes by Oswald Chambers

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

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.

The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.