Oswald Chambers Quotes

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

O Lord, Thou knowest that which is best for us; let this or that be done, as Thou shalt please. Give what Thou wilt, how much Thou wilt, and when Thou wilt. Deal with me as thou thinkest best. Place me where Thou wilt, and deal with me in all things just as Thou wilt. Behold, I am Thy servant, prepared for all things: I desire not to live unto myself, but unto Thee; and oh, that I could do it worthily and perfectly!

God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

Don't put a question mark where God has put a period.

Leave the rest to the gods.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.

It's in God's hands.

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

I always ask God if it is his will, and if so, then let it be. Whatever comes out of it I will accept it. That's the message I got and that's why I'm here at Hull.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.

There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.