Oswald Chambers Quotes

Adversity reminds men of religion.

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

Adversity makes men remember God.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

I do not believe in the 'prosperity Gospel' as I've been accused of believing it. I do believe that all good things come from God, and I also believe that God teaches us so much through our suffering.