We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
OSWALD CHAMBERSIt is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
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God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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Don’t read to remember; read to realize.
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Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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