Oswald Chambers Quotes

My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

Faith came by just believing God's word and taking Him up on His word.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things.

God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

Are you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you should wait until you can clearly see how to do what He has asked? Simply obey Him with unrestrained joy. When He tells you something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a misunderstanding of what honors Him and what doesn't. Are you faithful to Jesus, or faithful to your ideas about Him?

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.

God's mark is on everything that obeys Him.

JESUS WILL LIFT you out of the deepest pit, but He will not lift you out of your easy chair.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.

If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He would focus much on programs and statistics. What the Savior would want to know is the condition of our heart. He would want to know how we love and minister to those in our care, how we show our love to our spouse and family, and how we lighten their daily load. And the Savior would want to know how you and I grow closer to Him and to our Heavenly Father.

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.