Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

306. “God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.”

— Oswald Chambers

307. “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

308. “We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.”

— Oswald Chambers

309. “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

310. “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

311. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

313. “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

314. “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

315. “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

316. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

318. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

320. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

322. “Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim – not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

324. “We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

326. “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

327. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

335. “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

336. “Never disregard a conviction that the Holy Spirit brings to you. If it is important enough for the Spirit of God to bring it to your mind, it is the very thing He is detecting in you. You were looking for some big thing to give up, while God is telling you of some tiny thing that must go. But behind that tiny thing lies the stronghold of obstinacy, and you say, “I will not give up my right to myself” – the very thing that God intends you to give up if you are to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

337. “Jesus Christ’s life was an absolute failure from every standpoint but God’s. But what seemed failure from man’s standpoint was a tremendous triumph from God’s, because God’s purpose is never man’s purpose.”

— Oswald Chambers

338. “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

339. “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

340. “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

341. “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

342. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

344. “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

345. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

347. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

350. “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