Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.”

— Oswald Chambers

152. “Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.”

— Oswald Chambers

153. “Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.”

— Oswald Chambers

154. “If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

155. “The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.”

— Oswald Chambers

156. “Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.”

— Oswald Chambers

157. “Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.”

— Oswald Chambers

158. “Obey Him with glad reckless joy.”

— Oswald Chambers

159. “The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.”

— Oswald Chambers

160. “God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.”

— Oswald Chambers

161. “The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.”

— Oswald Chambers

162. “The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.”

— Oswald Chambers

163. “The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.”

— Oswald Chambers

164. “Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.”

— Oswald Chambers

165. “No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit.”

— Oswald Chambers

166. “There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

167. “Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.”

— Oswald Chambers

168. “If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.”

— Oswald Chambers

169. “Beware of reasoning about God’s Word – obey It.”

— Oswald Chambers

170. “The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.”

— Oswald Chambers

171. “By the supernatural miracle of God’s grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.”

— Oswald Chambers

172. “The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.”

— Oswald Chambers

173. “The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.”

— Oswald Chambers

174. “The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.”

— Oswald Chambers

175. “Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.”

— Oswald Chambers

176. “The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.”

— Oswald Chambers

177. “The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.”

— Oswald Chambers

178. “Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.”

— Oswald Chambers

179. “God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.”

— Oswald Chambers

180. “Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says – I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.”

— Oswald Chambers

181. “You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.”

— Oswald Chambers

182. “Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.”

— Oswald Chambers

183. “When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”

— Oswald Chambers

184. “Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.”

— Oswald Chambers

185. “Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.”

— Oswald Chambers

186. “If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.”

— Oswald Chambers

187. “Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don’t pray more.”

— Oswald Chambers

188. “The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.”

— Oswald Chambers

189. “It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.”

— Oswald Chambers

190. “Our Lord’s conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.”

— Oswald Chambers

191. “The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.”

— Oswald Chambers

192. “Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

193. “When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.”

— Oswald Chambers

194. “To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God’s will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.”

— Oswald Chambers

195. “God has one destined end for mankind – holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.”

— Oswald Chambers

196. “God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.”

— Oswald Chambers

197. “No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

198. “Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.”

— Oswald Chambers

199. “We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.”

— Oswald Chambers

200. “The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.”

— Oswald Chambers