Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oswald Chambers

As Christians we are not out for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause. We do not know what God is after, but we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.

Oswald Chambers

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

Oswald Chambers

Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

Oswald Chambers

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

Oswald Chambers

The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This is the outcome of allowing Jesus to satisfy every area of life to its depth. The picture resulting from such a life is that of the strong, calm balance that our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.

Oswald Chambers

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

Oswald Chambers

How many people have you made homesick for God?

Oswald Chambers

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

Oswald Chambers

God wants to use us as He used His own Son

Oswald Chambers

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

Oswald Chambers

For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him

Oswald Chambers

The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

Oswald Chambers

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

Oswald Chambers

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

Oswald Chambers

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

Oswald Chambers

The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

Oswald Chambers

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

Oswald Chambers

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

Oswald Chambers

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Oswald Chambers

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point--a great crossroads in our life. From that point we either go more and more toward a slow, lazy, and useless Christian life, or we become more and more on fire, giving our utmost for His highest--our best for His glory.

Oswald Chambers

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

Oswald Chambers

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

Oswald Chambers

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

Oswald Chambers

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

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Oswald Chambers

The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, and worry becomes an impossibility.

Paul Sadler

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.

Paul Henderson

I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.

Paul Auster

There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are Jews." What she means is that writers and artists are outside the normal flow of daily life, the normal flow of society in general.

Patrick Henry

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of the conscience; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.

Patrick Henry

Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory; because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics; and I find much cause to reproach myself that I have lived so long, and have given no decided and public proofs of my being a Christian. But, indeed, my dear child, this is a character which I prize far above all this world has, or can boast.