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
prayer father needs
Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.
break-through break surprising
Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
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.