Oswald Chambers God Quotations

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

When you fear God you fear nothing else!

Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

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.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

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.

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

Trust God, and do the next thing.

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.