Oswald Chambers Quotes

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Self regulation is a myth.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

I would love to eat my body weight in chocolate chip cookies, french fries, and peanut butter, but I don't. I choose not to. That's on me, just like it's on me if I choose to do it.

Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.