Oswald Chambers quotes

Oswald Chambers was a Scottish Christian minister and teacher, widely known for his devotional writings. His most famous work, "My Utmost for His Highest," has inspired millions worldwide. He devoted his life to spiritual teaching and continues to guide readers through his enduring books. Here are 56 of his quotes:

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. (Oswald Chambers)
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. View quote
Oswald Chambers
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. View quote
Oswald Chambers
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. View quote
Oswald Chambers
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. View quote
Oswald Chambers
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. View quote
Oswald Chambers
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. View quote
Oswald Chambers
Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him. View quote
Oswald Chambers
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading. View quote
Oswald Chambers
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. View quote
Oswald Chambers
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. (Oswald Chambers)
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. View quote
Oswald Chambers
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. View quote
Oswald Chambers
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. View quote
Oswald Chambers
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. View quote
Oswald Chambers
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't." View quote
Oswald Chambers
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. View quote
Oswald Chambers
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message. View quote
Oswald Chambers
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. View quote
Oswald Chambers
God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome. View quote
Oswald Chambers
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. (Oswald Chambers)
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them. View quote
Oswald Chambers
Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way. View quote
Oswald Chambers
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him. View quote
Oswald Chambers
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould. View quote
Oswald Chambers