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
littles needs world
What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.
suffering world midst
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
limits world way
The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.
men done world
God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
giving justice world
Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
jesus purpose world
The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
spiritual world spiritual-life
Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all
solitude world noise
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
secret-places battle world
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
heart broken world
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
want way responsible
We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
believe order design
Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.
absurd certain dealt destroy face ignoring increase mind pray second seen
Certain things can only be dealt with by ignoring them; if you face them you increase their power. It is absurd to say, Pray about them; when once a thing is seen to be wrong, don't pray about it, it fixes the mind on it; never for a second brood on it, destroy it by neglect.
hurt may
Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.