Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. — 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
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience. — 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
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the awfulness, a touch comes and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. The right hand not of restraint nor of correction nor of chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it is ineffable peace and comfort, the sense that "underneath are the everlasting… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to… — 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
