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
reflection thinking long
The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.
christian thinking leisure
God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.
believe thinking watches
Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.
thinking use alone-with-god
When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
prayer heart thinking
If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the breathing continues - we are not conscious of it but it is always going on.
jesus prayer thinking
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
prayer humble thinking
The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.
father thinking worry
God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?
teaching character thinking
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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.
christian prayer thinking
We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
men thinking doubt
Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
jesus helping-others thinking
If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
jesus stupid thinking
As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.