Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

258. “Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.”

— Oswald Chambers

259. “It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.”

— Oswald Chambers

260. “If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior.”

— Oswald Chambers

261. “The nature of faith is that it must be tried.”

— Oswald Chambers

262. “Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you – or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.”

— Oswald Chambers

263. “God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.”

— Oswald Chambers

264. “When we say “Thy will be done,” do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.”

— Oswald Chambers

265. “If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.”

— Oswald Chambers

266. “Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.”

— Oswald Chambers

267. “We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.”

— Oswald Chambers

268. “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

269. “Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.”

— Oswald Chambers

270. “There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.”

— Oswald Chambers

271. “Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.”

— Oswald Chambers

272. “Watch the things you say you can’t believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.”

— Oswald Chambers

273. “The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.”

— Oswald Chambers

274. “Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.”

— Oswald Chambers

275. “It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don’t agree with us.”

— Oswald Chambers

276. “God’s grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.”

— Oswald Chambers

277. “There is always one fact more in every man’s case about which we know nothing.”

— Oswald Chambers

278. “The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

279. “Conscience is the internal perception of God’s Moral Law.”

— Oswald Chambers

280. “Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led – but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- – a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

282. “A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.”

— Oswald Chambers

283. “We are not meant to be seen as God’s perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.”

— Oswald Chambers

284. “Never allow the thought, ‘I am of no use where I am.’ You are certainly of no use where you’re not.”

— Oswald Chambers

285. “Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.”

— Oswald Chambers

286. “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

287. “God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.”

— Oswald Chambers

288. “It’s one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.”

— Oswald Chambers

289. “Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

291. “The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

292. “When it is a question of God’s almighty Spirit, never say, ‘I can’t.’”

— Oswald Chambers

293. “God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.”

— Oswald Chambers

294. “Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

295. “We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people, and never get out of touch with human beings, if we are going to use the word of God skilfully amongst them.”

— Oswald Chambers

296. “The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.”

— Oswald Chambers

297. “If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.”

— Oswald Chambers

298. “If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives – not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.”

— Oswald Chambers

299. “The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.”

— Oswald Chambers

300. “When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.”

— Oswald Chambers