Quotes from Oswald Chambers

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

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

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

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.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

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.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.