Top 500 Oswald Chambers Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

402. “Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.”

— Oswald Chambers

403. “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

404. “Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. ‘All my fresh springs shall be in thee.’”

— Oswald Chambers

405. “One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.”

— Oswald Chambers

406. “A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.”

— Oswald Chambers

407. “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

408. “If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.”

— Oswald Chambers

409. “Never try to help God fulfill His word.”

— Oswald Chambers

410. “It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.”

— Oswald Chambers

411. “The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man’s respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.”

— Oswald Chambers

412. “We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.”

— Oswald Chambers

413. “Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.”

— Oswald Chambers

414. “If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.”

— Oswald Chambers

415. “Don’t waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don’t do them.”

— Oswald Chambers

416. “The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.”

— Oswald Chambers

417. “Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.”

— Oswald Chambers

418. “The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.”

— Oswald Chambers

419. “Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.”

— Oswald Chambers

420. “Prayer is an effort of will.”

— Oswald Chambers

421. “We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life – those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.”

— Oswald Chambers

422. “It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.”

— Oswald Chambers

423. “The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn.”

— Oswald Chambers

424. “At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself – the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

425. “The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God’s holiness, God’s purpose, God’s ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.”

— Oswald Chambers

426. “We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.”

— Oswald Chambers

427. “Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.”

— Oswald Chambers

428. “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

429. “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

430. “The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.”

— Oswald Chambers

431. “The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.”

— Oswald Chambers

432. “Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.”

— Oswald Chambers

433. “No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.”

— Oswald Chambers

434. “The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control.”

— Oswald Chambers

435. “If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.”

— Oswald Chambers

436. “God’s end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.”

— Oswald Chambers

437. “There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait.”

— Oswald Chambers

438. “We think we understand another person’s struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.”

— Oswald Chambers

439. “The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.”

— Oswald Chambers

440. “Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him...”

— Oswald Chambers

441. “Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.”

— Oswald Chambers

442. “There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.”

— Oswald Chambers

443. “A ready person never needs to get ready.”

— Oswald Chambers

444. “Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal – the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.”

— Oswald Chambers

445. “Even the natural heart of the unsaved will serve if called upon to do so, but it takes a heart broken by conviction of sin, baptized by the Holy Spirit, and crushed into submission to God’s purpose to make a person’s life a holy example of God’s message.”

— Oswald Chambers

446. “Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.”

— Oswald Chambers

447. “The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.”

— Oswald Chambers

448. “I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.”

— Oswald Chambers

449. “The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.”

— Oswald Chambers

450. “What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.”

— Oswald Chambers