Oswald Chambers Quotes

No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.

Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God.

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.

The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.'

I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.

I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

Christians cannot be so joined to this world that they forget who they serve.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

There is no division between true religion and noble living; a religion that does not express itself in nobility of living is an empty shell.

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

We must remember throughout our lives that in God's sight there are no little people and no little places. Only one thing is important: to be consecrated persons in God's place for us, at each moment.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.

What I am trying to teach is that when we keep the temple covenants we have made and when we live righteously in order to maintain the blessings promised by those ordinances, then come what may, we have no reason to worry or to feel despondent.

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory1 of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity.

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth

True beauty consists of purity of heart.