Oswald Chambers Quotes

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

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.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

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

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

... when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

No one is ever holy without suffering.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

You can't do God's work without suffering.

The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.