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 CHAMBERSI 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.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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.
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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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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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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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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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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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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.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?
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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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