Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.”

— Oswald Chambers

302. “It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

303. “If sin rules in me, God’s life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.”

— Oswald Chambers

304. “Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God’s indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

305. “God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.”

— Oswald Chambers

306. “So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.”

— Oswald Chambers

307. “Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

308. “It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

309. “God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having – viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...”

— Oswald Chambers

310. “Begin to know Him now, and finish never.”

— Oswald Chambers

311. “When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.”

— Oswald Chambers

312. “It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.”

— Oswald Chambers

313. “The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God’s decision.”

— Oswald Chambers

314. “Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.”

— Oswald Chambers

315. “The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.”

— Oswald Chambers

316. “It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.”

— Oswald Chambers

317. “Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.”

— Oswald Chambers

318. “It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.”

— Oswald Chambers

319. “God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.”

— Oswald Chambers

320. “Don’t read to remember; read to realize.”

— Oswald Chambers

321. “It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.”

— Oswald Chambers

322. “To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.”

— Oswald Chambers

323. “Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?”

— Oswald Chambers

324. “Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.”

— Oswald Chambers

325. “When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.”

— Oswald Chambers

326. “If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don’t know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

327. “The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.”

— Oswald Chambers

328. “People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

329. “Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1–17.”

— Oswald Chambers

330. “The underlying foundation of the Christian faith is the undeserved, limitless miracle of the love of God that was exhibited on the Cross of Calvary; a love that is not earned and can never be.”

— Oswald Chambers

331. “If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.”

— Oswald Chambers

332. “The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.”

— Oswald Chambers

333. “In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculations. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up in Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

334. “What makes God so dear to us is not so much His big blessings to us, but the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us – He knows every detail of each of our individual lives.”

— Oswald Chambers

335. “Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?”

— Oswald Chambers

336. “Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

337. “There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”

— Oswald Chambers

338. “Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, “every one that asketh receiveth.””

— Oswald Chambers

339. “We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.”

— Oswald Chambers

340. “Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to “be seen of men”.”

— Oswald Chambers

341. “Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.”

— Oswald Chambers

342. “Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.”

— Oswald Chambers

343. “Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.”

— Oswald Chambers

344. “When we choose deliberately to obey Him, then, with all His almighty power, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us.”

— Oswald Chambers

345. “Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.”

— Oswald Chambers

346. “A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.”

— Oswald Chambers

347. “The aim of the missionary is to do God’s will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.”

— Oswald Chambers

348. “Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective.”

— Oswald Chambers

349. “The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, and worry becomes an impossibility.”

— Oswald Chambers

350. “Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.”

— Oswald Chambers