Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

153. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

155. “Obey Him with glad reckless joy.”

— Oswald Chambers

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

170. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

178. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

180. “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

181. “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

182. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

184. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

189. “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

190. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

192. “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

193. “We must learn to live in the ordinary ‘gray’ day according to what we saw on the mountain.”

— Oswald Chambers

194. “The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

195. “The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God’s character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.”

— Oswald Chambers

196. “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

197. “The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.”

— Oswald Chambers

198. “Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.”

— Oswald Chambers

199. “Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.”

— Oswald Chambers

200. “We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.”

— Oswald Chambers