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
character men tongue
The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.
prayer cover-ups use
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
jesus connections sometimes
Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.
prayer silence bigger
Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.
character choices doe
God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.
faith religious devotion
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
angel i-can
Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.
knowing reason intellect
It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
men done world
God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
character done holy
When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
men dying good-times
We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.
heart intellectual passionate
Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.
christian causes our-relationship
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.
divine resources walks
God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.