Oswald Chambers
Scottish Baptist evangelist and Bible teacher, 1874-1917
18 quotes.
Quotes by Oswald Chambers
- Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
- Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don’t pray more.
- Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
- Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
- Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
- Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.
- Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work.
- Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
- Suppose God is the God you know Him to be when you are nearest to Him — what an impertinence worry is!
- The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough.
- The only way to be obedient to the heavenly vision is to give our utmost for God’s highest, and this can only be done by continually and resolutely recalling the vision.
- To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
- 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.
- We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
- We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
- 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.
- The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear Nothing else; whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.
- All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.