Oswald Chambers

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.

Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'

Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.

As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?