Oswald Chambers

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'

When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.

To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

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 not begin to be a saint.

When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.