Oswald Chambers Quotes

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

You would attain to the divine perfection.

There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

The church had to find a way to protect Jesus' perfection so that he could do the work of salvation which, in their frame of reference, only God could do, because God had to come into this world from outside this world to rescue the fallen creation.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

I believe that this was God's Will - to send a boy into the Reich, to let him become its Leader, in order to bring his home country into the Reich. Otherwise one must doubt Providence.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

I don't think our family is falling apart and getting destroyed. I just think it's rearranging itself in the way God meant it to be because it wasn't working how it was.

Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

He is not only a God of perfect time, but of perfect timing.

If you’re not seeing God move in your life right now, one of two possibilities must be considered. Either your requests are not God’s best and will probably not be answered the way you’d like or it must not be the right time. If God were to answer that prayer the way you are hoping, it could interfere with his ideal plan for you.

If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.