Oswald Chambers Quotes

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

If we grant freedom to man, there is an end to the omniscience of God.

The doctrine of free will is always in danger of robbing God of his honor

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

Man thinks, God directs.

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.

I have a rendezvous with life.