Quotes about Wisdom
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life—gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, not knowing what tomorrow may bring.
- Oswald Chambers
never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
- Oswald Chambers
We tend to think that a little anxiety and worry are simply an indication of how wise we really are, yet it is actually a much better indication of just how wicked we are.
- Oswald Chambers
We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus much deeper down, to get into the habit of steadily referring everything back to Him; instead of this we make our commonsense decisions and ask God to bless them.
- Oswald Chambers
If anything is a mystery to you and it is coming in between you and God, never look for the explanation in your intellect, look for it in your disposition, it is that which is wrong.
- Oswald Chambers
Never try to help God fulfill His word.
- Oswald Chambers
Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.
- Oswald Chambers
Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.
- Oswald Chambers
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
- Oswald Chambers
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
- Oswald Chambers
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
- Oswald Chambers
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone
- Oswald Chambers