Religious Quotes by Oswald Chambers

How many people have you made homesick for God?

— Oswald Chambers

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

— Oswald Chambers

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

— Oswald Chambers

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

— Oswald Chambers

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

— Oswald Chambers

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near…

— Oswald Chambers

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine…

— Oswald Chambers

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who…

— Oswald Chambers

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher…

— Oswald Chambers

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

— Oswald Chambers

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

— Oswald Chambers

The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

— Oswald Chambers

It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it…

— Oswald Chambers

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

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if…

— Oswald Chambers

One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He…

— Oswald Chambers

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of…

— Oswald Chambers

Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on…

— Oswald Chambers

As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over…

— Oswald Chambers

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before…

— Oswald Chambers

If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the…

— 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

Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of…

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

— Oswald Chambers

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the…

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Oswald Chambers

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

— Oswald Chambers

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.

— Oswald Chambers

God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you…

— Oswald Chambers

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what…

— 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

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint…

— Oswald Chambers