Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “We must learn to live in the ordinary ‘gray’ day according to what we saw on the mountain.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

204. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

206. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

209. “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

210. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

212. “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

213. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

215. “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

216. “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

217. “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

218. “Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.”

— Oswald Chambers

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

233. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

236. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

238. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

240. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

242. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

245. “Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.”

— Oswald Chambers

246. “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

247. “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

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

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

— Oswald Chambers