Oswald Chambers Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

  Oswald Chambers

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.

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  Stars, People, Joy

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.202, Discovery House

• Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

  Oswald Chambers

  Joy, Purpose, Born Again

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

• Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

  Oswald Chambers

  Rivers, Water, Joy

  Oswald Chambers (2017). “Utmost Ongoing: Reflections on the Legacy of Oswald Chambers”, p.16, Discovery House

• A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Joy, Intimacy, Intimacy With God

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition”, p.51, Discovery House

• What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

  Oswald Chambers

  People, Joy, Sorrow

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.328, Discovery House

• There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

  Oswald Chambers

  Joy, Soul, Forgotten

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

• Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

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  Joy, Doe, Happens

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.216, Discovery House

• When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Joy, Darkness

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.161, Discovery House

• Are you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you should wait until you can clearly see how to do what He has asked? Simply obey Him with unrestrained joy. When He tells you something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a misunderstanding of what honors Him and what doesn't. Are you faithful to Jesus, or faithful to your ideas about Him?

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.195, Discovery House

• The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Joy

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

• Obey Him with glad reckless joy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Joy, Reckless, Glad

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.187, Discovery House

• Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.

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  Jesus, Cheer, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.215, Discovery House

• It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Intimate Relationships, Joy

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.34, Discovery House

• Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Dream, Jesus, Love You

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