110+ Oswald Chambers Quotes On Faith, Prayer And Grace

Oswald Chambers was a Scottish theologian, teacher, and preacher. He is best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest, which was published posthumously in 1935. Chambers had a profound influence on many Christians, including the famous evangelist and missionary, Amy Carmichael. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Oswald Chambers on faith, prayer, grace.

Top 10 Oswald Chambers Quotes

1. The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
2. 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.
3. We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
4. All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
5. We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
6. 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.
7. Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
8. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations
9. Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
10. The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

Oswald Chambers Image Quotes

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Short Quotes

• Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
• A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
• God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
• Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.
• If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.
• Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
• You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
• Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Faith

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. — Oswald Chambers

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

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

Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace. — Oswald Chambers

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one. — Oswald Chambers

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me. — Oswald Chambers

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be. — Oswald Chambers

How many people have you made homesick for God? — Oswald Chambers

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen. — Oswald Chambers

We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Prayer

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day. — Oswald Chambers

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more. — Oswald Chambers

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. — Oswald Chambers

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

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God. — Oswald Chambers

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does. — Oswald Chambers

There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers. — Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive. — Oswald Chambers

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

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Grace

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God. — Oswald Chambers

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him. — Oswald Chambers

Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them. — Oswald Chambers

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

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

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

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately. — Oswald Chambers

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops. — Oswald Chambers

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace. — Oswald Chambers

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Obedience

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God. — Oswald Chambers

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. — Oswald Chambers

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God. — Oswald Chambers

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. — Oswald Chambers

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience. — Oswald Chambers

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

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

If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal. — Oswald Chambers

If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God. — Oswald Chambers

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Death

Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith up to the point of our physical death, which is the last great test. Faith is absolute trust in God-trust that could never imagine that He would forsake us. — Oswald Chambers

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

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death. — Oswald Chambers

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God. — Oswald Chambers

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get rid of the underlying idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience. Who of us could ever obey God to absolute perfection! — Oswald Chambers

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him. — Oswald Chambers

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life. — Oswald Chambers

in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Holy Spirit

So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those who do not know God, it is madness to trust Him, but when we pray in the Holy Spirit we begin to realize the resources of God, that He is our perfect heavenly Father, and we are His children. — Oswald Chambers

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand. — Oswald Chambers

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us. — Oswald Chambers

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. — Oswald Chambers

My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit. — Oswald Chambers

We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us. — Oswald Chambers

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Suffering

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. — Oswald Chambers

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. — Oswald Chambers

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. — Oswald Chambers

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression. — Oswald Chambers

We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus. — Oswald Chambers

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. — Oswald Chambers

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds. — Oswald Chambers

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. — Oswald Chambers

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world. — Oswald Chambers

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Discipleship

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

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

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. — Oswald Chambers

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Devotional

If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men. — Oswald Chambers

There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus. — Oswald Chambers

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. — Oswald Chambers

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him. — Oswald Chambers

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God. — Oswald Chambers

Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him. — Oswald Chambers

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Christ

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning. — Oswald Chambers

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

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

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid. — Oswald Chambers

No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives. — Oswald Chambers

One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions. — Oswald Chambers

There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Saint

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

God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy. — Oswald Chambers

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

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

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

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. — Oswald Chambers

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

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

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

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

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Spirit

The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly. — Oswald Chambers

The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power. — Oswald Chambers

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit — Oswald Chambers

When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart. — Oswald Chambers

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word. — Oswald Chambers

Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark. — Oswald Chambers

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

Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God. — Oswald Chambers

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it. — Oswald Chambers

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Quotes About Almighty

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

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power. — Oswald Chambers

Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty — Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers Famous Quotes And Sayings

We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be. — Oswald Chambers

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. — Oswald Chambers

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

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. — Oswald Chambers

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God. — Oswald Chambers

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness. — Oswald Chambers

Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth. — Oswald Chambers

It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there? — Oswald Chambers

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it. — Oswald Chambers

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you. — Oswald Chambers

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

We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference. — Oswald Chambers

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not. — Oswald Chambers

Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God. — Oswald Chambers

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity. — Oswald Chambers

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. — Oswald Chambers

You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet. — Oswald Chambers

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been. — Oswald Chambers

The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God. — Oswald Chambers

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work. — Oswald Chambers

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life. — Oswald Chambers

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere. — Oswald Chambers

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. — Oswald Chambers

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me. — Oswald Chambers

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us. — Oswald Chambers

We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength. — Oswald Chambers

There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord. — Oswald Chambers

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God. — Oswald Chambers

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him. — Oswald Chambers

The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility. — Oswald Chambers

The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God. — Oswald Chambers

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost. — Oswald Chambers

God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude. — Oswald Chambers

There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed. — Oswald Chambers

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level. — Oswald Chambers

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. — Oswald Chambers

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself. — Oswald Chambers

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. — Oswald Chambers

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

The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much. — Oswald Chambers

The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment , and tribulation for only one reason--these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God. — Oswald Chambers

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work. — Oswald Chambers

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants. — Oswald Chambers

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way. — Oswald Chambers

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline. — Oswald Chambers

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights. — Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer. — Oswald Chambers

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. — Oswald Chambers

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. — Oswald Chambers

Life Lessons by Oswald Chambers

1. Oswald Chambers taught that life is a journey of faith and that we should be willing to take risks and trust God to lead us in the right direction.
2. He also believed that it is important to be aware of our own weaknesses, and to rely on God's strength to help us overcome them.
3. Lastly, Chambers taught that we should strive to be obedient to God's will, and to live a life of love and service to others.