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
serving-god heard accounts
God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
spiritual perseverance knowing
There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.
mean commitment being-free
Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.
necks laziness shakes
Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
sky giving vision
The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
light fading-light fading
We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.
reflection thinking long
The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.
religious jesus redemption
If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.
religion wonder
When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
jesus mean matter
No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
mean people confusion
God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other than God's way; but the wonderful Spirit of God will remove confusion and enable us to see that the only means to obtain the experience of entire sanctification by faith is the grace of God.
loyalty jesus cost
In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.
gratitude sin fountain
The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.
jesus creativity saint
The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.