Oswald Chambers

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already

We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.

Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

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

When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.