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
people ordinary purpose
All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.
his-love firsts holiness
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
jesus want virtue
Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.
sorry son thinking
We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
inspirational determination spring
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
mean differences littles
Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference
believe trust-in-god easier
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.
faith religious clouds
If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
teaching men giving
Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is - Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.
prayer father giving
Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
jesus cost insult
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
men agony faces
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.
jesus real wine
Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.
mastery imagine circumstances
It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.