In the Christian life, godly influence is never conscious of itself. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“If we deliberately choose to obey God, then He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“My spiritual history must have as its underlying foundation a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ. To be born again means that I see Jesus.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share