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
doe forget christianity
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
valleys stuff ordinary
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
prayer doe fit
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
next trust-in-god
Trust God, and do the next thing.
mean reality sincerity
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
training weapons missionary
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
temptation cost earth
Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.
chaos ends walks
God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.
prayer spirit holy
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
christian grief heartless
A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
dream trust-in-god
Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
dog men broken
If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
morning prayer blessed
What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.
stars people joy
The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.