Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.”

— Oswald Chambers

352. “The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.”

— Oswald Chambers

353. “The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.”

— Oswald Chambers

354. “The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him...”

— Oswald Chambers

355. “The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

357. “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

358. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

360. “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

361. “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

362. “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

363. “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

364. “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

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

— 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. “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

368. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

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

— Oswald Chambers

376. “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

377. “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

378. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

381. “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

382. “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

383. “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

384. “Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises 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. “With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.”

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

390. “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

391. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

393. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

397. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

399. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers