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Saint Quotes by Oswald Chambers
- Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
- Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to…
- One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in…
- The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of…
- Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the…
- A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
- The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
- 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 of who comes…
- Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration…
- The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
- Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.
- God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men.…
- The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will…
- When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in…
- The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
- God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
- The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a…
- In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we…
- The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet…
- God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
- Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of…
- The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success…
- In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze…
- Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.
- God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your…
More Saint Quotes
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and… — Margaret Atwood
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- May God protect me from gloomy saints. — Teresa of Avila
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
- There is no sinner like a young saint. — Aphra Behn
- Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic… — Ezra Taft Benson
- For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are… — Annie Besant
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant
- Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce