Mean Quotes by Oswald Chambers

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

— Oswald Chambers

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no…

— Oswald Chambers

Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

— Oswald Chambers

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

— Oswald Chambers

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

— Oswald Chambers

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

— Oswald Chambers

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

— Oswald Chambers

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of…

— Oswald Chambers

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in…

— Oswald Chambers

In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not.…

— Oswald Chambers

We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a…

— Oswald Chambers

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get…

— Oswald Chambers

Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to…

— Oswald Chambers

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the…

— Oswald Chambers

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him…

— Oswald Chambers

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that…

— Oswald Chambers

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark…

— Oswald Chambers

When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either…

— Oswald Chambers

We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something…

— Oswald Chambers

God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification…

— Oswald Chambers

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our…

— Oswald Chambers

If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar.…

— Oswald Chambers

“allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or…

— Oswald Chambers

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to…

— Oswald Chambers

My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the…

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

— Oswald Chambers

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

— Oswald Chambers

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be…

— Oswald Chambers

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we…

— Oswald Chambers

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with…

— Oswald Chambers

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the…

— Oswald Chambers

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and…

— Oswald Chambers

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to…

— Oswald Chambers

Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His…

— Oswald Chambers

Perseverance is more than endurance." It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going…

— Oswald Chambers

To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are…

— Oswald Chambers