Oswald Chambers Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Feet, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.130, Discovery House

• God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Opportunity, People

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.73, Discovery House

• The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Passion, Rights

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.635, Discovery House

• The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Humble, Thinking

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Christian Character through Divine Guidance, Suffering, Peril, Prayer, Loneliness, and Patience”, p.158, Discovery House

• Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Archer, Sight

• Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Real, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.389, Discovery House

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Character, Mean

  Oswald Chambers (2014). “Biblical Psychology: Christ-Centered Solutions for Daily Problems”, p.164, Discovery House

• God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Training, Missionary, Saint

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

• Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Trust No One, Sight

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.189, Discovery House

• Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

• God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

  Oswald Chambers

  Judging, Saint, May

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.465, Discovery House

• Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Health, Doe, Saint

• Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Consistency, Faithful

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.80, Discovery House

• The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Humility, Evil

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

• A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.333, Discovery House

• One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Order, Soul

• In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

  Oswald Chambers

  Love, Spiritual, Attitude

• God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Judging, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

• The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Saint, Usefulness

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.496, Discovery House

• The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Prayer, Ideas

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.66, Discovery House

• Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Loyalty, Iron

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.86, Discovery House

• God saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not contribute to our happiness, but all can be made to contribute to our holiness. Vance Havner
  The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Saint, Holiness

• Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Saint, Should

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.54, Discovery House

• The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

  Oswald Chambers

  Saint, Tests, Faithfulness

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Not Knowing Whither: The Steps of Abraham's Faith”, p.156, Discovery House

• In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Motivation

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.405, Discovery House

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