Quotes of Oswald Chambers - somelinesforyou

“ Prayer is the greater work. ”

- Oswald Chambers

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

- Oswald Chambers

“ We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ”

- Oswald Chambers

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

- Oswald Chambers

“ If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ 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. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. ”

- Oswald Chambers

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

- Oswald Chambers

“ Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Certain things can only be dealt with by ignoring them; if you face them you increase their power. It is absurd to say, Pray about them; when once a thing is seen to be wrong, don't pray about it, it fixes the mind on it; never for a second brood on it, destroy it by neglect. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within ust simply reveals what we are made of already. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves… ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within ust simply reveals what we are made of already. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life. ”

- Oswald Chambers

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

- Oswald Chambers

“ We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. "In your patience possess your souls.". ”

- Oswald Chambers
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