Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Death is God’s delightful way of giving us life.”

— Oswald Chambers

202. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

211. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

222. “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

223. “The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations – it is a picture of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His unhindered way with us.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

234. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

236. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

240. “Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

242. “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

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

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

— Oswald Chambers

246. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers