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
grace growth sin
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
perfect use want
God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.
doe ends can-do
Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
hands break-out may
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.
easter men heaven
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
jesus confused men
Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.
pain heart men
The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.
dark reputation
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
heart needs purpose
There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.
jesus heart lasts
There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
friendship jesus shadow
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
outcomes reason god-bless-you
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
past hands steps
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
spiritual prayer giving
Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.