Oswald Chambers Quotes

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.

How very hard it is to be a Christian!

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I have lived long enough and served in enough different capacities to have removed from my mind, if such were necessary, any doubt of the divinity of this, the work of God. We respect those of other churches. We desire their friendship and hope to render meaningful service with them. We know they all do good, but we unabashedly state—and this frequently brings criticism upon us—that this is the true and living Church of our Father in Heaven and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it’s all true that they’re willing to go the ultimate mile?

Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.

If someone dies as a child, they go to heaven. But, as an adult, he made a choice of accepting Christianity, so, that's not apostacy. If he was a Muslim as an adult, then changed, that would be apostacy.

You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.

I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my faith.