Oswald Chambers

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity and the answer to all the problems of both.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect but obedience.

Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

Human nature if it 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.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

If you are going through a time of discouragement there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

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.

God is not saving the world it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Be exhausted for God but remember that your supply comes from Him. All my fresh springs shall be in thee.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

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

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

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

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence?

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate and when they are inarticulate reverence grows deeper and deeper.

Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions false impressions and false judgments in life it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

Grace is the overflowing favor of God and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

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.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.