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
Blissful Utmost For His Highest quotations
Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering;
he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say NO to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger YES burning inside.
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.
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you.
God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.
Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
When you fear God you fear nothing else!
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.
The good is always the enemy of the best.
What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.
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.
Happiness is the highest form of health.
Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?
