Oswald Chambers Quotes

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

If we can develop the character and work with God, then let him develop the character of Christ in us, we're going to become the best possible husband, the best possible wife.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.

I wish to be a martyr ... God willing, I will have this through you.

When I was ordained as a pastor, I walked away from secular music for seven, eight years. It took me that time to learn that God is love.

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people.

Christian life means sacrifice.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

God is love, and love is love.

Mary's life was a perfect imitation of Jesus. She was humble, hidden, sorrowful and afflicted, but she also knew joys that never entered the heart of man. She is all things to all men that she might understand their failings, though she failed not.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.