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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSGod does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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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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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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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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We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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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.
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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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.
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Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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It 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.
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