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
faith inspiration wine
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?
mould minutes five-minutes
It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
prayer waiting trying
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
christian prayer alive
Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
jesus prayer stupid
Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.
prayer exercise
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
dream prayer live-life
It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.
prayer heart thinking
If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the breathing continues - we are not conscious of it but it is always going on.
baby jesus links
Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.
humble doors thieves
Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
prayer moral mysterious
Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
creative principles
Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.
prayer giving understanding
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
jesus hands trust-yourself
Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'