Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

203. “One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.”

— Oswald Chambers

204. “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

205. “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

206. “Death is God’s delightful way of giving us life.”

— Oswald Chambers

207. “If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.”

— Oswald Chambers

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208. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

210. “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

211. “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

212. “God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.”

— Oswald Chambers

213. “Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?”

— Oswald Chambers

214. “The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.”

— Oswald Chambers

215. “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

216. “Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

218. “One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.”

— Oswald Chambers

219. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

221. “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

222. “We are here for God’s designs, not for our own.”

— Oswald Chambers

223. “Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

225. “Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

226. “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

227. “You say, “But He has not answered.” He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.”

— Oswald Chambers

228. “Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

229. “Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.”

— Oswald Chambers

230. “Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.”

— Oswald Chambers

231. “O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself.” Such a need for constant vindication destroys our soul’s faith in God. Don’t say, “I must explain myself,” or, “I must get people to understand.” Our Lord never explained anything – He left the misunderstandings or misconceptions of others to correct themselves.”

— Oswald Chambers

232. “It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!”

— Oswald Chambers

233. “Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary’s cross.”

— Oswald Chambers

234. “The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

235. “The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.”

— Oswald Chambers

236. “The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.”

— Oswald Chambers

237. “Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

238. “As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.”

— Oswald Chambers

239. “Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

240. “We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

241. “Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.”

— Oswald Chambers

242. “Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.”

— Oswald Chambers

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243. “When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.”

— Oswald Chambers

244. “The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

245. “God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.”

— Oswald Chambers

246. “A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.”

— Oswald Chambers

247. “We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.”

— Oswald Chambers

248. “The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.”

— Oswald Chambers

249. “It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.”

— Oswald Chambers

250. “A river reaches places its source never knows.”

— Oswald Chambers