Oswald Chambers

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

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 saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.