Quotes by Oswald Chambers - Oswald Chambers

“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.”

“If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.”

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.

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

Beware of reasoning about God’s Word – obey it.

Prayer is an effort of will.

Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can’t unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

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

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

God has one destined end for mankind – holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.”

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people – the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary’s cross.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

“Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.”