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
letting-go fruit doe
Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.
doe satan possibility
Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.
joy doe depends
Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.
character choices doe
God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.
winning missionary doe
The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.
giving overcoming doe
God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.
jesus doe flesh
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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.
prayer doe fit
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
mean long doe
In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.
asking doe asking-god
Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.
grace doe good-things
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
spiritual doe circumstances
God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
doe ends can-do
Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.