black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.

Oswald Chambers

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Bright Glow Greatness Growth Shine
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Build Life Ourselves Strength
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Gold Intellectual Obedience Rule Spiritual Understand
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Damage God Noise Solitude World
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
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.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Himself Intimacy Person Relationship Time Visible Walk
God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Best Circumstance God Talk Yourself
The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Character Expression God Goodness Human Religion
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

God Himself Holy Intense Love
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Expectation God Life Manifestation Moral Ourselves
Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

God Remember Service Yourself
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Best Measurement Obedience Spiritual
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Answer Prayer Way Yourself
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

God Ourselves Prayer Purpose
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

Devotion God Person Reason Religion Work
Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
OSWALD CHAMBERS

End God Ourselves Religious

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Oswald Chambers Quotes