Oswald Chambers Quotes

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

I personally wouldn't be where I am without my faith. I know that for a fact.