Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.”

— Oswald Chambers

102. “You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.”

— Oswald Chambers

103. “The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.”

— Oswald Chambers

104. “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

105. “Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.”

— Oswald Chambers

106. “Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.”

— Oswald Chambers

107. “Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

108. “Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.”

— Oswald Chambers

109. “We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.”

— Oswald Chambers

110. “We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.”

— Oswald Chambers

111. “Our work begins where God’s grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.”

— Oswald Chambers

112. “Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.”

— Oswald Chambers

113. “We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.”

— Oswald Chambers

114. “My worth to God in public is what I am in private.”

— Oswald Chambers

115. “Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.”

— Oswald Chambers

116. “God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”

— Oswald Chambers

117. “We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.”

— Oswald Chambers

118. “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

119. “Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.”

— Oswald Chambers

120. “Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.”

— Oswald Chambers

121. “Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all.”

— Oswald Chambers

122. “The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.”

— Oswald Chambers

123. “All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.”

— Oswald Chambers

124. “The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.”

— Oswald Chambers

125. “All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

126. “God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.”

— Oswald Chambers

127. “The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”

— Oswald Chambers

128. “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

129. “The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.”

— Oswald Chambers

130. “There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.”

— Oswald Chambers

131. “When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.”

— Oswald Chambers

132. “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

133. “The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a ‘happy Christian.’ Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed ‘that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.’”

— Oswald Chambers

134. “If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the breathing continues – we are not conscious of it but it is always going on.”

— Oswald Chambers

135. “God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already.”

— Oswald Chambers

136. “Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

137. “God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.”

— Oswald Chambers

138. “Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.”

— Oswald Chambers

139. “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

140. “There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.”

— Oswald Chambers

141. “The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.”

— Oswald Chambers

142. “We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.”

— Oswald Chambers

143. “Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.”

— Oswald Chambers

144. “In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.”

— Oswald Chambers

145. “Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.”

— Oswald Chambers

146. “Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.”

— Oswald Chambers

147. “Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God’s perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.”

— Oswald Chambers

148. “Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.”

— Oswald Chambers

149. “It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something...”

— Oswald Chambers

150. “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