Oswald Chambers Quotes

God gave us the mind so that we can know him.

It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

God will use us for his purposes, but it takes a certain kind of listening.

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

It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.

My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God's word.

If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.

God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

You need to focus so much on what's in front of you rather than thinking about what might happen in the future.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.

Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.