Oswald Chambers

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, “I will remain true to God’s character whatever He may do.” The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).

We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.

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