Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don’t deify common sense.”

— Oswald Chambers

452. “If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.”

— Oswald Chambers

453. “There are certain things we must not pray about – moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.”

— Oswald Chambers

454. “The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.”

— Oswald Chambers

455. “Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father’s wisdom.”

— Oswald Chambers

456. “Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.”

— Oswald Chambers

457. “If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.”

— Oswald Chambers

458. “When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.”

— Oswald Chambers

459. “A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.”

— Oswald Chambers

460. “Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

461. “Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.”

— Oswald Chambers

462. “How many people have you made homesick for God?”

— Oswald Chambers

463. “God’s mark of approval, whenever you obey Him, is peace. He sends an immeasurable, deep peace; not a natural peace, “as the world gives,” but the peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, wait until it does, or seek to find out why it is not coming. If you are acting on your own impulse, or out of a sense of the heroic, to be seen by others, the peace of Jesus will not exhibit itself.”

— Oswald Chambers

464. “Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

465. “When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

466. “Wait for God’s timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment. When it is a question of the providential will of God, wait for God to move. Peter did not wait for God. He predicted in his own mind where the test would come, and it came where he did not expect it. “I will lay down my life for Your sake.” Peter’s statement was honest but ignorant.”

— Oswald Chambers

467. “To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!”

— Oswald Chambers

468. “We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.”

— Oswald Chambers

469. “Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.”

— Oswald Chambers

470. “We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.”

— Oswald Chambers

471. “Prayer is God’s answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.”

— Oswald Chambers

472. “If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?”

— Oswald Chambers

473. “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

474. “Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.”

— Oswald Chambers

475. “Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty.”

— Oswald Chambers

476. “God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.”

— Oswald Chambers

477. “The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.”

— Oswald Chambers

478. “It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.”

— Oswald Chambers

479. “We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.”

— Oswald Chambers

480. “Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.”

— Oswald Chambers

481. “Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.”

— Oswald Chambers

482. “Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.”

— Oswald Chambers

483. “Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.”

— Oswald Chambers

484. “The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, “Ask.” It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.”

— Oswald Chambers

485. “Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.”

— Oswald Chambers

486. “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

487. “The men with God’s ‘go’ in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.”

— Oswald Chambers

488. “God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.”

— Oswald Chambers

489. “Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.”

— Oswald Chambers

490. “Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ – For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.”

— Oswald Chambers

491. “Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.”

— Oswald Chambers

492. “God’s “nothings” are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.”

— Oswald Chambers

493. “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

494. “Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.”

— Oswald Chambers

495. “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

496. “For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him.”

— Oswald Chambers

497. “Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.”

— Oswald Chambers

498. “The love of God and the wrath of God are obverse sides of the same thing, like two sides of a coin. The wrath of God is as positive as His love. God cannot be in agreement with sin. When a man is severed from God, the basis of his moral life is chaos and wrath not because God is angry, like a Moloch; rather it is His constitution of things. The wrath of God abides all the time a man persists in the way that leads away from God; the second he turns, he is faced with His love.”

— Oswald Chambers

499. “Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.”

— Oswald Chambers

500. “We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.”

— Oswald Chambers