Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.”

— Oswald Chambers

352. “Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.”

— Oswald Chambers

353. “We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don’t faint when you are rebuked, and don’t despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

355. “To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.”

— Oswald Chambers

356. “If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.”

— Oswald Chambers

357. “When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.”

— Oswald Chambers

358. “But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.”

— Oswald Chambers

359. “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” – this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.”

— Oswald Chambers

360. “Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God’s presence, never in full view of the world. The Spirit of God seizes me and I am compelled to get alone with God and fight the battle before Him. Until I do this, I will lose every time. The battle may take one minute or one year, but that will depend on me, not God. However long it takes, I.”

— Oswald Chambers

361. “We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.”

— Oswald Chambers

362. “It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.”

— Oswald Chambers

363. “As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness. But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.”

— Oswald Chambers

364. “When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.”

— Oswald Chambers

365. “Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

366. “Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.”

— Oswald Chambers

367. “The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.”

— Oswald Chambers

368. “The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.”

— Oswald Chambers

369. “Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.”

— Oswald Chambers

370. “The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.”

— Oswald Chambers

371. “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

372. “Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

373. “The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.”

— Oswald Chambers

374. “Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.”

— Oswald Chambers

375. “Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.”

— Oswald Chambers

376. “Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.”

— Oswald Chambers

377. “Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God.”

— Oswald Chambers

378. “Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.”

— Oswald Chambers

379. “With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.”

— Oswald Chambers

380. “Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.”

— Oswald Chambers

381. “Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

383. “We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.”

— Oswald Chambers

384. “When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

385. “The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we refused to be partakers, we hinder others from entering into the riches of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

386. “You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”

— Oswald Chambers

387. “Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.”

— Oswald Chambers

388. “Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.”

— Oswald Chambers

389. “Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

390. “Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

391. “We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.”

— Oswald Chambers

392. “I have to learn that the aim in life is God’s, not mine.”

— Oswald Chambers

393. “The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

394. “Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!”

— Oswald Chambers

395. “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

396. “Never run away with the idea that it doesn’t matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.”

— Oswald Chambers

397. “Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?”

— Oswald Chambers

398. “Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father’s will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.”

— Oswald Chambers

399. “No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.”

— Oswald Chambers

400. “Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.”

— Oswald Chambers