Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

203. “Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

205. “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

206. “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

207. “All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

209. “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

210. “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

211. “To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

212. “If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

214. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

216. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

219. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

226. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

228. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

231. “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

232. “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

233. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

236. “We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.”

— Oswald Chambers

237. “Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.”

— Oswald Chambers

238. “The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.”

— Oswald Chambers

239. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

241. “One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

242. “Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

244. “God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.”

— Oswald Chambers

245. “The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

247. “When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.”

— Oswald Chambers

248. “Do you believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Are you willing to let Him?”

— Oswald Chambers

249. “The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.”

— Oswald Chambers

250. “Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.”

— Oswald Chambers