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
jesus giving-up lying
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
strong jesus men
God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
perseverance encouragement endurance
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
christianity reasoning
Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.
spiritual understanding matter
The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience.
creating moments divine
God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments
men facts cases
There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.
jesus watches wrecks
You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
jesus lying misunderstood
Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.
life-is aim mines
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
realizing lord
Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.
jesus men gone
No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
jesus devotion competitors
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
men sin natural
There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.