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
not-good-enough enemy faith-in-god
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
god-love
The love of God is not created- it is His nature.
serving-god heard accounts
God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
bartering word-of-god conception
Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.
god dream people
We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.
god christian spirit
One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.
god christian worry
If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
firsts god-first thirds
It must be God first, God second, and God third
god real common-sense
The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.
valleys glory gods-will
We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.
gods-will knows
God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
blessing giving god-blessing
Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.
would-be gods-will prove
Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
fear-nothing fear-not fear-god
When you fear God you fear nothing else!