Quotes by Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) — Prediger, Autor · Baptistisch · England
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) war ein schottisch-britischer Prediger und Bibellehrer aus dem Umfeld der Heiligungsbewegung, der zuletzt als Militärseelsorger in Ägypten wirkte. Weite Bekanntheit erlangte er durch das posthum aus Mitschriften veröffentlichte Andachtsbuch „Mein Äußerstes für sein Höchstes“, das die völlige Hingabe des eigenen Lebens an Gott ins Zentrum rückt. Für Bibelleser bieten seine pointierten Texte geistliche Impulse zur persönlichen Nachfolge, während theologische Kritiker eine mitunter subjektive Schriftauslegung und Tendenzen zum Perfektionismus hinterfragen.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Prayer & Silence, Grace & Redemption, Growth & Character, Discipleship, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Humility & Pride, Service & Love of Neighbour
Quotes by Oswald Chambers
When we pray, the circumstances often remain the same, but we become different.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.
Oswald Chambers
God does not love us because we are lovable, but because his nature is love.
Oswald Chambers
We live out of the boundless riches of Christ. Some of us talk as if our heavenly Father had fobbed us off with pocket money.
Oswald Chambers
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
Oswald Chambers
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
Oswald Chambers
We do not work for the redemption of the world, but because God has redeemed the world. That is a huge difference.
Oswald Chambers
It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God’s silence has been the sign of the answer. If we always want to be able to point to something and say, “This is the way God answered my prayer,” God cannot trust us yet with His silence.
Oswald Chambers
It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things.
Oswald Chambers
Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been.
Oswald Chambers
The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His love.
Oswald Chambers
If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He does not ask you to put it right; He asks you to accept the light, and He will put it right.
Oswald Chambers
Never be afraid when God brings back the past. Let memory have its way. It is a minister of God with its rebuke and chastisement and sorrow. God will turn the “might have been” into a wonderful culture for the future.
Oswald Chambers
The main thing about Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the atmosphere produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to look after, and it is the one thing that is being continually assailed.
Oswald Chambers
At the basis of Jesus Christ’s Kingdom is the unaffected loveliness of the commonplace.
Oswald Chambers
“Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.” Then why ask? That you may get to know Him.
Oswald Chambers
Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the word He puts in? The devil? No, the cares of this world. It is the little worries always.
Oswald Chambers
It is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no one paying the remotest attention to us.
Oswald Chambers
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly.
Oswald Chambers
Jesus is laying down the rules of conduct for those who have His Spirit, and it works on this principle — God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, why should I worry?
Oswald Chambers
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
Oswald Chambers
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
Oswald Chambers
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the breathing continues – we are not conscious of it but it is always going on.
Oswald Chambers
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
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
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
Oswald Chambers
Take care that you do not cling to creeds, but to Christ.
Oswald Chambers
When I pray, do I pay more attention to the mountain that is to be moved, or to God, who can take it away?
Oswald Chambers
Praying is not about getting things from God. That is only the beginning; praying means coming into agreement with God.
Oswald Chambers
Christ can never make a saint out of a good person, only out of the godless, the weak, or the sinful.
Oswald Chambers
The last thing Jesus commanded his disciples was not to save the world, but to tell the world that it is already saved.
Oswald Chambers
The new life in Christ is not an ecstatic rush upward, but a forward walk with infinite, steady, unconquerable patience.
Oswald Chambers
The only one who understands us is the One who made us.
Oswald Chambers
God's call is like the call of the sea: you cannot say exactly to what God is calling you; it is the call into a relationship with himself.
Oswald Chambers
The perfection of Christ is given to us; it is nothing we must earn through prayer, obedience, and discipline.
Oswald Chambers
Truth is not a doctrine, but a Person.
Oswald Chambers
You are part of God's creation; so let Jesus Christ make this little piece of creation - you - good and whole.
Oswald Chambers
There is only one way to be good: not to keep trying to be good, but to hold fast to faith in Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
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