Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

52. “God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.”

— Oswald Chambers

53. “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

54. “At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

55. “Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.”

— Oswald Chambers

56. “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

57. “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

58. “The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.”

— Oswald Chambers

59. “Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.”

— Oswald Chambers

60. “When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word.”

— Oswald Chambers

61. “The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.”

— Oswald Chambers

62. “Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.”

— Oswald Chambers

63. “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

64. “At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.”

— Oswald Chambers

65. “There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.”

— Oswald Chambers

66. “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

67. “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

68. “Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.”

— Oswald Chambers

69. “Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.”

— Oswald Chambers

70. “No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.”

— Oswald Chambers

71. “Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.”

— Oswald Chambers

72. “We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.”

— Oswald Chambers

73. “Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.”

— Oswald Chambers

74. “Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.”

— Oswald Chambers

75. “The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

77. “Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

78. “In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.”

— Oswald Chambers

79. “We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.”

— Oswald Chambers

80. “We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.”

— Oswald Chambers

81. “When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.”

— Oswald Chambers

82. “Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.”

— Oswald Chambers

83. “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

84. “Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

85. “We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”

— Oswald Chambers

86. “Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.”

— Oswald Chambers

87. “My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

88. “Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.”

— Oswald Chambers

89. “Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.”

— Oswald Chambers

90. “Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

91. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

93. “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.”

— Oswald Chambers

94. “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

95. “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

96. “Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.”

— Oswald Chambers

97. “It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.”

— Oswald Chambers

98. “It must be God first, God second, and God third.”

— Oswald Chambers

99. “God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.”

— Oswald Chambers

100. “Sin is blatant mutiny against God.”

— Oswald Chambers