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 is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. — 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
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 peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty — 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. From… — 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
The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.… — 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
So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It's easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener. — 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 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
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
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
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
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 greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be'… — 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 Image
Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
