Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chamberswas an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth24 July 1874
crush wine use
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
grace soul sovereign
Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.
cutting evil temptation
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.
jesus father watches
Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.
giving-up exercise action
I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
fire people sorrow
If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
capacity behinds
Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
father men life-is
All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.
theology practicals
Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.
self self-centered
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
mutiny sin dies
Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
sorrow amount shallowness
Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
reality gone praying
Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?
enemy utmost-for-his-highest
The good is always the enemy of the best.