Oswald Chambers Quotes

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.

Men are not born saints with special gifts and privileges. They fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, and as they conquer, the spirit of Jesus begins to shine through with more clarity.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.