Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Oswald Chambers

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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.”

— Oswald Chambers

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3. “Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

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4. “Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.”

— Oswald Chambers

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5. “Trust God, and do the next thing.”

— Oswald Chambers

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6. “God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.”

— Oswald Chambers

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7. “When you fear God you fear nothing else!”

— Oswald Chambers

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8. “We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.”

— Oswald Chambers

9. “Don’t forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.”

— Oswald Chambers

10. “Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.”

— Oswald Chambers

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11. “No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.”

— Oswald Chambers

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12. “Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ...”

— Oswald Chambers

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13. “All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.”

— Oswald Chambers

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14. “Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”

— Oswald Chambers

15. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.”

— Oswald Chambers

16. “Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.”

— Oswald Chambers

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17. “If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

— Oswald Chambers

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18. “When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.”

— Oswald Chambers

19. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

21. “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

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22. “When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.”

— Oswald Chambers

23. “Trust yourself in God’s hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. ‘Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.’”

— Oswald Chambers

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24. “Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.”

— Oswald Chambers

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25. “The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.”

— Oswald Chambers

26. “The good is always the enemy of the best.”

— Oswald Chambers

27. “God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?”

— Oswald Chambers

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28. “Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.”

— Oswald Chambers

29. “A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.”

— Oswald Chambers

30. “The love of God is not created- it is His nature.”

— Oswald Chambers

31. “There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.”

— Oswald Chambers

32. “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

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33. “Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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35. “God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.”

— Oswald Chambers

36. “God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

37. “An unguarded strength is a double weakness.”

— Oswald Chambers

38. “Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.”

— Oswald Chambers

39. “We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.”

— Oswald Chambers

40. “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

41. “Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

43. “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

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44. “Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.”

— Oswald Chambers

45. “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

46. “Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.”

— Oswald Chambers

47. “God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.”

— Oswald Chambers

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48. “We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.”

— Oswald Chambers

49. “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.”

— Oswald Chambers

50. “Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.”

— Oswald Chambers