Oswald Chambers Quotes About God

Quotes about: God

• Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Commitment

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.238, Discovery House

• We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

• Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Christian

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

• Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Letting Go

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

• To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

  Oswald Chambers

  Change, Faith, God

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.501, Discovery House

• Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Faith

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

• Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.138, Discovery House

• I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Faith

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.26, Discovery House

• Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Confidence

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.137, Discovery House

• If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.207, Discovery House

• The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.56, Discovery House

• God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Limits

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.309, Discovery House

• We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.307, Discovery House

• The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.282, Discovery House

• Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.54, Discovery House

• Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Patience, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition”, p.84, Discovery House

• When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heartbreak, God, Disappointment

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

• When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.163, Discovery House

• Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Spiritual

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.106, Discovery House

• The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

  Oswald Chambers

  Relationship, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.250, Discovery House

• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Friendship, God

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Shade of His Hand: Talks on the Book of Ecclesiastes”, p.82, Discovery House

• Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Faith

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “Conformed to His Image / Servant as His Lord: Lessons on Living Like Jesus”, p.21, Discovery House

• One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.154, Discovery House

• It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Death, God, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.52, Discovery House

• To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.554, Discovery House

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